This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here."Gandalf isn't supposed to die."That text appeared on my phone yesterday from a New York City pastor who worked closely with Tim ...
Anxiety is having a moment. Compared to prepandemic rates, for example, anxiety has doubled in young people. The increase feels daunting and downright scary at times as Christians struggle to determin...
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here.This week on my podcast, I talked to Rainn Wilson, the writer, actor, and comedian who played the character Dwight Schrute on The...
On April 3, Malaysia's parliament voted to abolish the mandatory death penalty. In its place, the courts may mete out alternative sentences such as life imprisonment or whipping."[For] people who get ...
Will they, or won't they? The question of white evangelical voters' support for former president Donald Trump isn't over yet.As Florida governor Ron DeSantis seems to be preparing to formally enter th...
Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the modern era of Major League Baseball (MLB), is undoubtedly one of the most significant cultural figures in the history of professional sports....
Midway through global K-pop sensation BTS's 2015 track "Ma City," J-Hope raps a lyric that's both a personal homage and a history lesson: "Everyone dial it, 062-518." Those digits are a cleverly encod...
In the past couple weeks since Trump's arrest, I've seen some reactions from his conservative supporters along these lines: "If they can go after Trump, they can also go after you"--which is the whole...
Billy Graham tried.He preached in the White House the first Sunday after Richard Nixon was inaugurated in 1969, and he tried to preach clearly enough that the new president would hear his message. Gra...
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here.As I write this, I have no idea if or when we will see something no generation of Americans has ever witnessed: a mug shot of a f...
Jesus' caution in Luke 12:2, "There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known," certainly proved prescient in the case of white evangelicals. Oceans of ink...
On this episode, New York Times Opinion columnist Ross Douthat tells Russell Moore where he's wrong on Catholicism and American culture. Kind of.
Douthat and Moore consider what it looks like...
The Archbishop who challenged violence and corruption - and paid with his life
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The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews reminds Christians that they are surrounded by a great...
When Paul Pelosi, husband of speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, was attacked, social media erupted with jokes. Why? What is at the heart of such a calloused response to violence?
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"I am a man." On February 12, 1968, over two hundred Black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, bore this revolutionary message written on signs and embodied in their protest against the work con...