What if heroism isn’t about being Superman, but about setting aside cynicism to choose courage in ordinary life? Russell welcomes his good friend Adam Kinzinger for a conversation that starts with Kingziner’s new children’s book, That’s What Heroes Do, which grew out of his experience becoming a father during one of the most turbulent stretches of modern American politics. Russell and Adam talk candidly—as friends who’ve walked through some of the same fire together—about the strange emotional a...
Jun 03, 2026•53 min
Sometimes the Pope knows how to nail some theses to the door too – a reading from Russell’s recent newsletter. Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . 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. Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Special offer for listeners of The Russell Moore Show : Click here for 25% off a subscription. ...
Jun 01, 2026•15 min
Two men from Mississippi’s Gulf Coast wonder if America is finally willing to grow up. Watch this conversation on YouTube As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, Russell is joined by fellow southern Mississippi native and public intellectual Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. to talk about race, memory, patriotism, and the stories nations tell themselves in order to avoid repentance. Drawing from his new book America, USA: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries , Glaude argues that the danger faci...
May 27, 2026•44 min
Reflections on Rededicate 250. Watch this episode on YouTube 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. Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Special offer for listeners of The Russell Moore Show : Click here for 25% off a subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
May 25, 2026•14 min
What a renowned 82-year-old Christian mathematician has to say about a life well lived. Watch this conversation on YouTube For decades, Oxford mathematics professor emeritus John Lennox has stood in lecture halls, debate stages, and university classrooms making the case that Christianity is not a retreat from serious thought but an invitation into it. He has debated some of the world’s best-known skeptics, from Richard Dawkins to Christopher Hitchens. He taught mathematics at Oxford. He smuggled...
May 20, 2026•54 min
Russell answers a question from a listener who lost their beloved pastor. Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . Submit your own question for the show! Email questions@russellmoore.com — and remember: attach a voice memo! 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. Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Special offer for liste...
May 18, 2026•19 min
What does it mean to call someone the “father” of a nation—and what happens when that father is more complicated than legend allows? Watch this conversation on YouTube . Russell welcomes renowned historian H.W. Brands for a conversation on his newest book, American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington . Washington was a man formed by ambition and concern for character, but from the myth of praying at Valley Forge to the quiet realities of Washington’s faith, his life is often incorrectly per...
May 13, 2026•46 min
Russell answers a listener question about how to identify spiritual revival. Watch this episode on Youtube . Submit your own question for the show! Email questions@russellmoore.com — and remember: attach a voice memo! Keep up with Russell: Subscribe to Russell on Substack Sign up for the weekly Moore to the Point newsletter Submit a question for the show at questions@russellmoore.com Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Special offer for listeners of The Russell Moore Show : Click here ...
May 11, 2026•17 min
Russell overcomes nerves while welcoming musical artist, songwriter, and overall legend Amy Grant. Watch this video on Youtube . Amy Grant and Russell sit down in Charlie Peacock’s home to talk about her first album in over a decade, The Me That Remains (out May 8). The conversation starts with Russell’s admission that Amy’s was his first concert as a middle school youth group student. From there, Grant reflects on the aftermath of a serious bike accident, the strange disorientation of memory lo...
May 06, 2026•44 min
Russell shares his 8 tips for making major decisions. Watch this episode on YouTube . Russell reads the latest from his newsletter – read it here. Submit a question for the show (and include a voice memo!) at questions@russellmoore.com Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Special offer for listeners of The Russell Moore Show : Click here for 25% off a subscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
May 04, 2026•26 min
McKay Coppins spent one year and $10,000 of The Atlantic’s money to find out the truth about sports betting. Watch this conversation on YouTube . Russell welcomes McKay Coppins to talk about his latest for The Atlantic , a deeply personal and unsettling experiment with online sports betting, which opened a window into the addictive architecture of modern gambling, and the quiet ways it can take hold of a life. Together, they explore not just the mechanics of gambling, but its deeper implications...
Apr 29, 2026•58 min
Russell answers a listener question about how we can pass our Christian faith heritage to our children without making it weird. Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . Submit your own question for the show! Email questions@russellmoore.com — and remember: attach a voice memo! 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. Subscribe to th...
Apr 27, 2026•25 min
How should the church address infertility and childlessness? Watch this episode on YouTube In this special episode filmed as a livestream for Christianity Today subscribers, Russell Moore sits down with Karen Swallow Prior to talk about her recent CT Magazine article, “ The Birds and the Bees, Babies and Me .” Drawing from her own experience, Prior reflects on the deeply personal nature of infertility—not just as a medical or social issue, but as a spiritual and communal one. But this conversati...
Apr 22, 2026•44 min
Trust Me, I’m a Doctor. Watch this episode on YouTube . Russell reads his latest article for Christianity Today – read it here. Submit a question for the show (and include a voice memo!) at questions@russellmoore.com Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Special offer for listeners of The Russell Moore Show : Click here for 25% off a subscription Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
Apr 20, 2026•14 min
Malcolm Guite and Russell meet in Andrew Peterson’s Chapter House–Guite’s pipe smoke billowing–on the occasion of Guite’s new book, Galahad and the Grail, the first volume in the Merlin's Isle trilogy from Rabbit Room Press . Guite argues that myths and old stories aren’t just relics of a pre-modern imagination, they’re carriers of truth we’ve forgotten how to see with modern eyes. From King Arthur to the Holy Grail, these stories don’t distract us from the real world, they reveal it. Guite sugg...
Apr 15, 2026•48 min
Russell answers a listener question about whether church policies should include reporting abuse to local law enforcement. (Spoiler alert: yes, you should.) Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . Submit your own question for the show! Email questions@russellmoore.com — and remember: attach a voice memo! 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 h...
Apr 13, 2026•17 min
What if the justice we rely on to bring closure is actually keeping us from it? Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . *At 23 minutes, a question is asked about the physical realities of the death penalty. That section is over by 26 minutes.* Malcolm Gladwell joins Russell to discuss his recent 8-part podcast series, The Alabama Murders (from the Revisionist History podcast), which tells the story of a church leader who hires two men to kill his wife. In the search for closure, their ...
Apr 08, 2026•47 min
Russell answers a listener question about trusting God when your anxiety won’t go away. Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . Submit your own question for the show! Email questions@russellmoore.com — and remember: attach a voice memo! 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. Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Special o...
Apr 06, 2026•20 min
In this special Easter edition of the Russell Moore Show, Russell draws from past episodes to explore how the resurrection of Jesus reframes everything: from scientific belief and intellectual doubt to embodied life, unexpected joy, and suffering. Featuring clips from episodes with Francis Collins, Michael Wear, David Taylor, Christian Wiman, Kate Bowler, and Tim Keller, this episode draws out our Christian hope: if Christ is raised, then reality itself is different. Across stories of cancer dia...
Apr 01, 2026•48 min
Russell answers a listener question about whether commercialization has ruined country music. Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . Submit your own question for the show! Email questions@russellmoore.com — and remember: attach a voice memo! 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. Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Spe...
Mar 30, 2026•14 min
The American experiment has never been about achieving perfection, but facing a task always unfinished. Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . At a moment when many Americans feel fearful, exhausted, or tempted to despair, Russell Moore welcomes Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jon Meacham for a conversation about the moral and spiritual meaning of democracy. Drawing from Meacham’s new anthology, American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union , Meacham ...
Mar 25, 2026•48 min
The civil rights leader treated love of God and love for others as inseparable. Watch this episode on YouTube On occasion, we like to record audio versions of the latest from Russell’s weekly newsletter. Sign up for the newsletter , Moore to the Point, where Russell shares thoughtful takes on big questions, offers a Christian perspective on life, and recommends books and music he's enjoying. Submit a question for the show (and include a voice memo!) at questions@russellmoore.com Subscribe to the...
Mar 23, 2026•12 min
Every Moment Holy author Douglas McKelvey on writing prayers for the moments both sacred and mundane. Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . There are moments in life when something significant is happening, but we don’t quite know how to mark it. Not a wedding, not a funeral—just one of those in-between spaces when we feel that words ought to be said but don’t know how to say them. In this episode, Russell Moore talks with writer and liturgist Douglas McKelvey about the Every Moment ...
Mar 18, 2026•41 min
Russell answers a listener question about what algorithms miss about heartbreak. Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . Links mentioned: Previous episode about Martina McBride’s song “Independence Day” Song, Dean Summerwind’s “Parked Out By the Lake” Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History episode “The King of Tears” Submit your own question for the show! Email questions@russellmoore.com — and remember: attach a voice memo! Keep up with Russell: Sign up for the weekly newsletter where ...
Mar 16, 2026•18 min
Former Harper’s Magazine editor Christopher Beha on his journey from skeptical Atheism to skeptical Christianity . Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . For many people, faith and skepticism are opposites, but novelist and former Harper’s Magazine editor Christopher Beha argues that the two may be more intertwined than we assume. In this conversation about his new book, Why I’m Not an Atheist , Beha reflects on his journey from a devout Catholic upbringing to atheism and eventually b...
Mar 11, 2026•54 min
On the war with Iran. On occasion, we like to record audio versions of the latest from Russell’s weekly newsletter. Read this article here . Sign up for the newsletter , Moore to the Point, where Russell shares thoughtful takes on big questions, offers a Christian perspective on life, and recommends books and music he's enjoying. Submit a question for the show (and include a voice memo!) at questions@russellmoore.com Watch this episode on YouTube Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Spe...
Mar 09, 2026•14 min
A bonus episode with bestselling author and friend, Jennie Allen, on the occasion of her new book, The Lie You Don’t Know You Believe . Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . Many people live with a persistent sense that something is not quite right—a low-grade hum of anxiety, insecurity, or striving that never seems to go away. In this bonus episode, Russell Moore talks with author and Bible teacher Jennie Allen about the hidden lies that can quietly shape our lives for years. Drawin...
Mar 06, 2026•27 min
The author of Theo of Golden sits down with Russell in Andrew Peterson’s Chapter House for a conversation on the breakout novel. NO SPOILERS! Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . Russell is joined by Allen Levi, the author of the breakout novel Theo of Golden , to ask why so many readers are hungry for a story about kindness—and whether such a person could exist outside the pages of fiction. Russell and Allen sit together in Nashville for a conversation based on questions RDM collec...
Mar 04, 2026•1 hr 1 min
A thought experiment on the realness of aliens, and what that would mean. Watch this episode on YouTube On occasion, we like to record audio versions of the latest from Russell’s weekly newsletter. Read this article here . Sign up for the newsletter , Moore to the Point, where Russell shares thoughtful takes on big questions, offers a Christian perspective on life, and recommends books and music he's enjoying. Submit a question for the show (and include a voice memo!) at questions@russellmoore...
Mar 02, 2026•16 min
What happens to a society when its boys grow up without a script for becoming men? Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here . In this conversation, Richard Reeves—author of Of Boys and Men (selected as a 2024 Summer read by President Obama), and founding president of the American Institute for Boys and Men —walks through the data and the deeper cultural currents beneath the struggle of the journey of boys becoming men. From rising male suicide rates to widening education gaps, and from sp...
Feb 25, 2026•56 min
