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Russell Moore
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Oct 3, 2025
About
Russell Moore serves as the eighth president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, the moral and public policy agency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
A widely-sought cultural commentator, Dr. Moore has been recognized by a number of influential organizations. The Wall Street Journal has called him “vigorous, cheerful, and fiercely articulate” while The Gospel Coalition has referred to him “one of the most astute ethicists in contemporary evangelicalism.
An ethicist and theologian by background, Dr. Moore is also an ordained Southern Baptist minister and the author of several books, including the forthcoming Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel. He blogs frequently at his Moore to the Point website, and hosts a program called Questions & Ethics—a wide-ranging podcast addressing listener-generated questions on the difficult moral and ethical issues of the day.
A native Mississippian, he and his wife Maria are the parents of five sons.
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Feb 4, 2026 ∙ 6 min
When Christians Contemplate Assisted Suicide
https://www.russellmoore.com/2026/02/04/when-christians-contemplate-assisted- suicide/ A reader of my newsletter asked me if he might be going to hell. Actually, the reader’s question was quite a bit more nuanced. He’s a Christian, a committed follower of Jesus. He’s also suffering from a debilitating, painful, and slowly terminal disease. Let’s call him Max. He lives in Canada, where physician-assisted suicide—or “aid in dying,” as the euphemism goes—is now legal and ubiquitous. Max says he...
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Mar 10, 2025 ∙ 3 min
Atheist Parents: Don't Lie to Your Children
It’s none of my business what atheists teach their children, I know. And I have enough to do rearing my own five sons. But occasionally one will hear advice so bad it must be answered. In this case, the advice is for atheists to “lie” to their children about the existence of God. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal psychoanalyst Erica Komisar notes upward rates of anxiety and depression among children and adolescents and argues that much of this can be explained by the decline of...
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Jul 29, 2024 ∙ 3 min
Is Atheism or Apathy More Dangerous?
God might exist. And He might not. There might be a Judgment Day. And there might not. Oh well. If that sums up your creed, you just might be part of one of the nation’s fastest growing religions. In Atlantic Monthly, correspondent Jonathan Rauch notes that he finally stopped calling himself an atheist, when he realized that he just doesn’t care about God-one way or the other. He is an “apatheist.” And Rauch discovered that he is not alone. In fact, he argues, apatheism represents the silent...
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May 20, 2024 ∙ 4 min
Narcissism and Jesus: Why They Can't Coexist
If you are in Christ, God will not allow you to enter his reign with a kingdom-grasping pride. You will be stripped of every haughty look, every personal empire, in order that you might enter as a little child, looking for a Father’s inheritance. This will come either through personal repentance, learning to humble yourself, or by God humbling you through his working it out in your life to knock down your empire so you can be found in his. The Spirit then applies the exact same “mind of...
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Jan 23, 2024 ∙ 5 min
Is Our Kingdom His Kingdom?
Confession: I have a terrible problem of talking, and sometimes walking, in my sleep. It’s an old family trait that I’m carrying on, much to my family’s sometimes dismay. Last night, Maria woke me as I was standing upright in the bed, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. When she told me about it the next day, I mused that maybe my subconscious was just celebrating the Fourth of July weekend, and that if anyone ever questions my patriotism I can just say, “I literally pledge allegiance to that...
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Oct 23, 2023 ∙ 5 min
The Weight of Glory in a Time of Blood and Fear
We are experience one event of mayhem after another. It feels as though every institution is failing, every norm is collapsing. Many of you, from what you’re telling me, are feeling numb and helpless and overwhelmed. That’s a scary place to be. Several weeks ago, I pulled out one of my favorite C.S. Lewis books in order to talk about it on one of the “Reading in Exile” videos. The book was The Weight of Glory , a collection of essays, and my copy has been with me all of my adult life....
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Aug 19, 2023 ∙ 11 min
Are We Losing Our Religion?
Almost everyone in the world of American religion has spent the last couple of weeks thinking through what Gallup just revealed : that, for the first time since they’ve been surveying the topic, less than half the country belongs to a church of any kind. My first thought was grief. But what came after that was a strange sort of almost survivor’s guilt. When I was fifteen years old, I considered suicide—and it was because I didn’t want to lose my religion. As I’ve written about elsewhere , I...
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May 6, 2022 ∙ 4 min
What Happens When People Cheer for Abortion
Many were alarmed and dispirited by footage of raucous cheering in the New York State Senate chamber. The “Happy Days Are Here Again” sort of celebration wasn’t for a bill to guarantee health care or repair roads or to reform the government. The applause and laughter was instead for a bill to remove any protections as persons from unborn children at any stage of pregnancy. While this video does indeed tell us much about the culture in which we live right now I actually think another piece of...
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Mar 15, 2022 ∙ 11 min
Are We Losing Our Religion?
Almost everyone in the world of American religion has spent the last couple of weeks thinking through what Gallup just revealed : that, for the first time since they’ve been surveying the topic, less than half the country belongs to a church of any kind. My first thought was grief. But what came after that was a strange sort of almost survivor’s guilt. When I was fifteen years old, I considered suicide—and it was because I didn’t want to lose my religion. As I’ve written about elsewhere , I...
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