Russell D. Moore

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  Dec 20, 2012

  Let's Rethink Our Holly-Jolly Christmas Songs

  I overheard a man explain why he hated Christmas music. "Christmas is boring because there's no narrative tension," he said. "It's like reading a book with no conflict." Some of the blame is on our sentimentalized Christmas of the American civil religion.

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  Dec 9, 2012

  Is the Culture at War With Christmas?

  Every year about this time, there's a lot of hubbub about a so-called "war on Christmas." We ought not to get outraged by all that, as though we were some protected class of victims. We ought to instead see the ways that our culture is less and less connected with the roots of basic knowledge about Christianity.

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  Nov 7, 2012

  How Should Christians Respond to Obama's Re-Election?

  The American people have decided that Barack Obama should have a second term. And, behind them, in the mystery of providence, God has decided that Barack Obama would be re-elected. So how should Christians respond to our once and future President?

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  Oct 31, 2012

  Halloween and Evangelical Identity

  The words "evangelical" and "fundamentalist" have very little meaning. "Evangelical" includes, for some people, everyone from J.I. Packer to T.D. Jakes to Brian McLaren. I tried my hand at explaining the spectrum, with tongue in cheek. A conservative evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up for the church's "Fall Festival."

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  Oct 26, 2012

  Can I Be a Christian and a Divorce Lawyer?

  I have a church member, a devoted Christian, who is an attorney specializing in divorce cases. Our church believes that divorce is (in almost every case) sin. If so, isn't he empowering sin? Should I counsel him to follow Christ by walking away from this job and to do something else?

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  Oct 12, 2012

  Farewell to the American Protestant Majority

  According to a new study by the Pew Forum, Protestants are, for the first time in history, not a majority in the United States of America. I don't think that's anything for evangelical Protestants, or anyone else, to panic about. Frankly, we should be more concerned about the loss of a Christian majority in the Protestant churches than about the loss of a Protestant majority in the United States.

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  Oct 5, 2012

  How Church Discipline Can Be Like Doctor Shopping

  Law enforcement officials use the term "doctor shopping" to refer to the way those addicted to prescription pain medications seek to avert accountability. I've noticed the same thing going on when it comes to church accountability. The truth is, there's a certain type of personality that doesn't want accountability, but affirmation.

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  Sep 23, 2012

  Is Tim Tebow a Chauvinist?

  Tim Tebow says he wants a wife with "a servant's heart." Does that make him a misogynist? Jezebel, a feminist website, picked up on comments Tebow made in an interview with Vogue magazine, in which he said he wanted a wife who lived up to the high standards set for him by his mother and sisters.

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  Sep 21, 2012

  Should Christians Adopt Embryos?

  An "embryo" isn't a thing; he or she is a "who." These so-called "snowflakes" are brothers and sisters of the Lord Jesus and are stored in cryogenic containers in fertility clinics as the "extras" of IVF projects. They already exist, and they already exist as persons created in the image of God. And there are Christians called to adopt them, to bring them to birth through pregnancy, and to raise them in love.

• Sep 12, 2012

  How Christians Should Engage Latter-day Saints

  Christians often wonder why Mormons believe such an incredible system: golden tablets translated with "magic glasses," an advanced society of ancient American Indian Israelites who left behind no archaeological evidence at all, an eternity of godhood producing spirit babies, and special protective underwear. What we must understand is that Latter-day Saints believe these things for the same reason that people everywhere believe the things they do: they want to believe them.