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**The Russell Moore Show – Christianity Today, Russell Moore**

Listen in as Russell Moore, editor at-large of Christianity Today and director of CT’s Public Theology Project, talks about the latest books, cultural conversations and pressing ethical questions that point us toward the kingdom of Christ.

Latest Episodes:

Listener Question: Should We Call Christian MAGA ‘Christian’? Oct 13, 2025

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Russell takes a listener's question about what we should call religious participants in the MAGA movement.

Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here.

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Ben Watson and Russell Moore on The Just Life Oct 08, 2025

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Retired NFL player Benjamin Watson has been on this show several times over the years, and he’s recently released his own podcast, The Just Life. Russell was a guest on the show, and together they talked about Russell’s background along with matters of justice, gospel-centered living, and faithful action. Check out Ben’s show here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanityby Paul Kingsnorth
Savage Gods by Paul Kingsnorth
Buccmaster Trilogy by Paul Kingsnorth
Paul’s Essay, “The Cross and the Machine”

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Listener Question: Why Aren’t Christians Engaging in Humanitarian Aid? Oct 06, 2025

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Russell answers a listener’s question regarding why Christians are not stepping in to help with the humanitarian aid crisis, and what needs to change.

Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here.

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BONUS: Lecrae on Reconstruction After Disillusionment Oct 03, 2025

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Lecrae joins Russell Moore to talk about reconstructing faith after crises of disillusionment.

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Originally aired live on September 24th, Russell hosted a conversation for Christianity Today subscribers with Lecrae regarding his recent Christianity Today article, “An Exhortation to the Exhausted Black Christian.” They talk about Lecrae’s public life as a Christian hip hop artist and author, and his near deconstruction. Then, the floor was opened to questions from subscribers.

Listen to the recent episode with Paul Kingsnorth

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Paul Kingsnorth on the Dark Powers Behind AI Oct 01, 2025

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What if the world’s brightest engineers aren’t just building smarter tools—but opening a door to something older, darker, and more sinister?

In this episode of The Russell Moore Show, RDM sits down with Paul Kingsnorth—novelist, essayist, and former pagan turned Orthodox Christian—to talk about his searing new book Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity. Kingsnorth argues that the technologies we treat as neutral conveniences may, in fact, be spiritual weapons. The internet as a giant Ouija board. AI not as invention, but as invocation.

It sounds insane—until you realize the people creating these systems admit they don’t fully understand them either.

In this conversation, Kingsnorth tells the unlikely story of his journey from Wiccan witchcraft to baptism in the Orthodox Church, why he believes our cultural obsession with screens, sex, and selfhood is a trap, and why Christians in particular must stop treating technology as just another tool. What if it’s more than that? What if, in chasing progress, we’ve been summoning something we cannot control?

This isn’t your average hand-wringing about iPhones or social media. It’s a bracing, unsettling, and oddly hopeful dialogue about how to remain human in an age increasingly hostile to humanity itself.

Listen in if you’ve ever wondered:

Why AI feels less like a tool and more like a presence
How paganism and environmentalism can point toward, but never satisfy, the longing for God
What the “four pillars of the machine” are—and how they’re shaping us without our consent
Whether resistance to the machine is possible, and how communities of faith might embody it

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanityby Paul Kingsnorth
Savage Gods by Paul Kingsnorth
Buccmaster Trilogy by Paul Kingsnorth

Paul’s Essay, “The Cross and the Machine”

Keep up with Russell:

Sign up for the weekly newsletter where Russell shares thoughtful takes on big questions, offers a Christian perspective on life, and recommends books and music he's enjoying.
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Tim Keller on Hope in Times in Fear (re-air) Sep 24, 2025

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A conversation with Tim Keller from 2021, in honor of his birthday.

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Tim Keller would have turned 75 years old this week (September 23rd). To mark this, we are bringing back an episode from early in 2021 (back when the show was called Signposts). At the time of the conversation, Keller was a few months removed from learning of the cancer that eventually took his life and had just released a new book, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter. They also talk about the recent article Tim wrote for The Atlantic, wrestling with mortality, how to order our loves in this life, and finding hope in the midst of suffering.

Ultimately, this is a conversation upholding the comfort of the resurrection, and reminds us that through it, nothing truly good is ever lost.

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30 Things for 30 Years in Ministry Sep 22, 2025

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Russell shares 30 things he’s learned in his 30 years of ordained ministry.

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This was originally shared in the Moore to the Point newsletter (sign up here), but Russell received so much feedback that it deserved its own episode.

Have feedback? Email questions@russellmoore.com. We’ll look forward to hearing from you.

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Books about Digital Resistance with Ashley Hales: The New Wendell Berry Novel, Jon Haidt, David Zahl, and More Sep 17, 2025

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Another quarterly conversation on books with Christianity Today’s Editorial Director, Ashley Hales, on the subject of resisting the digital era.

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What’s the role of reading in a screen-saturated, distracted, AI world?

Russell is joined once again by Ashley Hales, print editor at Christianity Today, to explore how literature can help us resist the attention-fractured nature of our technological era by offering unique ways to process real life itself, giving us tools to see grace where we least expect it.

Russell reflects on Wendell Berry’s latest (and perhaps final) Port William novel, Marce Catlett, and what it means to say goodbye to a lifelong literary companion. Ashley shares insights on Jan Karon’s return to Mitford, and the two discuss how stories shape our capacity for empathy, memory, and hope. They also highlight nonfiction works like Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation (check out our recent episode with Jon) and David Zahl’s The Big Relief, considering how books can guide us through exhaustion, anxiety, and the pressures of modern life. Then, the two share the stack of books they’re reading just for fun, and upcoming releases they’re looking forward to.You can find all the titles mentioned in the episode below.

Plus–Hear ye one and all!–Russell shares about an AI tool that he likes!

If you’ve ever wondered how exactly reading still matters in a world of constant noise, this episode makes the case that it does—perhaps now more than ever.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Bookshelf App
Marce Catlett by Wendell Berry
My Belovedby Jan Karon
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jon Haidt
The Big Relief by David Zahl
Feminism Against Progressby Mary Harrington

Ashley’s CT article based on this book

Ct article about MAID in Canada
Panby Michael Clune
Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World by Graham Tomlin
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
Thomas More by Joanne Paul
On His Own Termsby Richard Norton Smith (audiobook link)
Food For Thoughtby Alton Brown
Making Roomby Christine D. Pohl
Unreasonable Hospitalityby Will Guidara
The Murders in the Rue Morgueby Edgar Allan Poe
The Trinity Forum’s Revelation of Divine Love, which includes an introduction by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Joseph and his Brothersby Thomas Mann
The Vanishing Churchby Ryan Burge

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Listener Question: Is Screentime with Grandparents Dangerous for My Children? With Jon Haidt Sep 15, 2025

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Russell is joined by Jon Haidt to answer a listener's question: “Is screentime with grandparents dangerous for my children?” Listen to the full interview with John HERE, and (ironically) watch the video of this conversation on YouTube here.

Submit your own question for the show! Email questions@russellmoore.com — and remember: attach a voice memo!

Keep up with Russell:

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Jonathan Haidt’s Newest Thoughts on Technology, Anxiety, and the War for Our Attention Sep 10, 2025

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It’s odd that one of our listeners’ favorite frequent guests is an atheist: Jonathan Haidt. And yet, it’s not really that unusual because Haidt, though not a believer, is perhaps the world’s foremost thinker on issues Christians face every day: the digital war on our attention spans, how technology is making us anxious, how removing obstacles and pain-points from our children hurts them, and why we all seem to hate each other so much.

This week, Dr. Moore welcomes back social psychologist Jonathan Haidt to ask him how things have changed in recent months in the rapidly evolving landscape of technology and its impact on faith communities. Haidt—author of The Anxious Generation, The Coddling of the American Mind, and The Righteous Mind—shares his latest observations and updated insights since we last spoke.

This is a fresh new conversation, building off of the previous ones. As the digital world shifts at breakneck speed, Haidt offers new analysis on what he's witnessing on the front lines: how smartphones and social media are reshaping our capacity for prayer and Bible reading, the escalating influence of TikTok and short-form video, and emerging concerns about AI in church settings.

From practical questions about phone-free churches to broader concerns about protecting children in digital environments, this conversation bridges scientific insight with pastoral care.

You'll hear Haidt's surprising predictions about AI's future, discover which social media platform he considers most harmful, and learn his single most important piece of advice for church leaders seeking to preserve human connection in our high-tech age.

This is an essential dialogue for anyone concerned about reclaiming our ability to pay attention, think deeply, pray meaningfully, and build authentic community in an era of endless digital distraction.

See more from Jon Haidt:

Anxious Generation website: AnxiousGeneration.com