Russell D. Moore

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Oct 24, 2013
Should We Pull Back from Politics?
The recent profile in the Wall Street Journal highlighted a generational change in terms of the way evangelicals approach cultural and political engagement: toward a gospel-centered approach that doesn't back down on issues of importance, but sees our ultimate mission as one that applies the blood of Christ to the questions of the day. The headline, as is often the case with headlines, is awfully misleading. I am not calling, at all, for a "pullback" from politics or engagement.
Oct 11, 2013
A Conversation With Flame on Hip-Hop and Gospel Witness
Hip-hop artist Flame, a Dove, Stellar, Grammy nominee, and graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's undergraduate Boyce College, recently released his seventh album, "Royal Flush." Flame joined Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, to discuss the opportunity Christian hip-hop artists have to be salt and light in the music industry, and how hip-hop can be an avenue for gospel witness.
Oct 2, 2013
Some Thoughts on Pope Francis
It's another week and thus another interview with Pope Francis. This one, I'm sorry to say, is more than just confusing. It's a theological wreck.
Sep 26, 2013
Why Carl F. H. Henry (Still) Matters
It's a little book by a dead man from the last generation, and it just might be the road-map for the future of American Christianity. I'm referring to the late theologian Carl F. H. Henry's 1947 book "The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism." This slim little paperback's importance might not seem obvious in a digital whirling world of contemporary Christians, but the issues Henry raised over sixty years ago are more relevant than ever.
Jul 24, 2013
What's at Stake With Internet Pornography
In light of British Prime Minister David Cameron's actions on Internet pornography, here's why I think we ought to care about digital porn. There's a situation in counseling I come across all too often: a couple will typically tell me first about how stressful their lives are. Maybe he's lost his job. Perhaps she's working two. Maybe their children are rowdy or the house is chaotic. But usually, if we talk long enough about their fracturing marriage, there is a sense that something else is afoo
Jul 17, 2013
Racial Justice and the Godness of God
I love that picture because it sums up precisely the issue at that time, and at every time. The struggle for civil rights for African-Americans in this country wasn't simply a "political" question. It wasn't merely the question of, as Martin Luther King Jr. puts it from before the Lincoln Memorial, the unfulfilled promises of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution (although it was nothing less than that).
Jul 12, 2013
What Willie Nelson Can Teach Us About Divorce
Willie Nelson, the legendary country musician, has framed himself as an "outlaw." He flaunted the conventional norms of the Nashville music industry, and even, legend says, smoked marijuana in the Carter White House. He's less of an outlaw, though, when he talks about the sadness of his failed marriages. There's something in the way he speaks about divorce that I think resonates across culture today, something we need to hear.
Jun 28, 2013
How Should You Explain the Same-Sex Marriage Debate to Your Children?
With the recent Supreme Court decisions all over the news, some Christian parents wonder how they ought to explain all of this to their small children. I've faced the same question as my children have asked, "What is the Supreme Court doing that's keeping you so busy?" So how does one teach the controversy, without exposing one's children to more than they can handle?
Jun 26, 2013
How Should Same-Sex Marriage Change the Church's Witness?
The Supreme Court has now ruled on two monumental marriage cases, and the legal and cultural landscape has changed in this country. The court voted to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and remand the decision of the Ninth Circuit in the Proposition 8 case, holding that California's Proposition 8 defenders didn't have standing. The Defense of Marriage Act decision used rather sweeping language about equal protection and human dignity as they apply to the recognition of same-sex unions. But
Jun 7, 2013
Why Calvinists and Arminians (and Those in Between) Can Unite for Religious Liberty
Next week my denomination will receive the report from a special committee tasked with seeking unity between Calvinists and non-Calvinists in the Southern Baptist Convention. The report concludes what I've long suspected: we have much more uniting us across these questions than dividing us, and most of us are ready to love one another and work together.