Ronda Patton
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From the creators of the hit podcast “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” comes a new show, “Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” an exploration of the Satanic Panic that gripped America in the 1980s and ’90s.
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:
The Devil Went Down to Arkansas - Christianity Today
On the face of it, TLC’s The Duggar Family and Damien Echols, one of the infamous West Memphis Three, seem to have little in common. But what if we told you that both stories, which begin and end in A...
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January 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
From the creators of the hit podcast “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” comes a new show, “Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” an exploration of the Satanic Panic that gripped America in the 1980s and ’90s.
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:
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This week on The Russell Moore Show: Host @drmoore.bsky.social is joined by author and journalist Tim Alberta for a conversation on American culture, politics, and churches.
A Conversation with Tim Alberta - Christianity Today
In December of 2023, journalist and author Tim Alberta joined Russell Moore to discuss the ways that politics have invaded the white evangelical church in recent years. He returns to talk about the el...
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January 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This week on The Russell Moore Show: Host @drmoore.bsky.social is joined by author and journalist Tim Alberta for a conversation on American culture, politics, and churches.
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Re-upping this for those who might need it right now.
How to Get Through the Next Four Years
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How to Get Through the Next Four Years
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How to Get Through the Next Four Years - Christianity Today
From Russell Moore: The nonstop Donald Trump news cycle will be crazy. You don’t have to be.
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February 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Re-upping this for those who might need it right now.
How to Get Through the Next Four Years
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How to Get Through the Next Four Years
www.christianitytoday.com/2024/11/next...
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“When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.”
How MAGA’s morality contradicts the core principles of American pluralism: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
How MAGA’s morality contradicts the core principles of American pluralism: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
Opinion | How a German Thinker Explains MAGA Morality
Us and them is all the rage.
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January 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.”
How MAGA’s morality contradicts the core principles of American pluralism: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
How MAGA’s morality contradicts the core principles of American pluralism: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
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Join us tonight on YouTube for a live conversation with Christianity Today Book of the Year winner Gavin Ortlund and runner-up Brad East about Protestantism, spiritual formation of the next generation and more. It’s at 8pm ET/7pm CT:
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CT Book Awards with Russell Moore
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December 12, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Join us tonight on YouTube for a live conversation with Christianity Today Book of the Year winner Gavin Ortlund and runner-up Brad East about Protestantism, spiritual formation of the next generation and more. It’s at 8pm ET/7pm CT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sioi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sioi...
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“At first glance, the guidance of the Magi might lead us to conclude that we too should seek out those who can read constellations,” writes @drmoore.bsky.social.
“But the story of Jesus upends all that.”
“But the story of Jesus upends all that.”
The Star of Bethlehem Is a Zodiac Killer - Christianity Today
From Russell Moore: How Christmas upends everything that draws our culture to astrology.
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December 12, 2024 at 2:42 PM
“At first glance, the guidance of the Magi might lead us to conclude that we too should seek out those who can read constellations,” writes @drmoore.bsky.social.
“But the story of Jesus upends all that.”
“But the story of Jesus upends all that.”
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Join us tomorrow to celebrate our annual Book Awards!
With CT’s editor-in-chief @drmoore.bsky.social, CT editors @aahales.bsky.social @bonniekristian.bsky.social, and Book of the Year winner @gavinortlund.bsky.social.
Follow this link tomorrow for the YouTube livestream: bit.ly/41nXwSe
With CT’s editor-in-chief @drmoore.bsky.social, CT editors @aahales.bsky.social @bonniekristian.bsky.social, and Book of the Year winner @gavinortlund.bsky.social.
Follow this link tomorrow for the YouTube livestream: bit.ly/41nXwSe
December 11, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Join us tomorrow to celebrate our annual Book Awards!
With CT’s editor-in-chief @drmoore.bsky.social, CT editors @aahales.bsky.social @bonniekristian.bsky.social, and Book of the Year winner @gavinortlund.bsky.social.
Follow this link tomorrow for the YouTube livestream: bit.ly/41nXwSe
With CT’s editor-in-chief @drmoore.bsky.social, CT editors @aahales.bsky.social @bonniekristian.bsky.social, and Book of the Year winner @gavinortlund.bsky.social.
Follow this link tomorrow for the YouTube livestream: bit.ly/41nXwSe
Today’s Advent Devotional:
After Disaster, God Draws Near,
How Jeremiah’s prophecy points to Advent’s promise.
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After Disaster, God Draws Near,
How Jeremiah’s prophecy points to Advent’s promise.
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After Disaster, God Draws Near - Christianity Today
How Jeremiah’s prophecy points to Advent’s promise.
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December 9, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Today’s Advent Devotional:
After Disaster, God Draws Near,
How Jeremiah’s prophecy points to Advent’s promise.
@christianitytoday.com
After Disaster, God Draws Near,
How Jeremiah’s prophecy points to Advent’s promise.
@christianitytoday.com
You see a seasonal Christmas snack. You think, I should pick up a box. Why not? I’ll eat them in moderation. It’ll be fine.
That is the lie you tell yourself before you bite into the goodness that is a @thereallittledebbie Christmas Tree.
I possibly am going to need a support group.
That is the lie you tell yourself before you bite into the goodness that is a @thereallittledebbie Christmas Tree.
I possibly am going to need a support group.
December 9, 2024 at 10:23 PM
You see a seasonal Christmas snack. You think, I should pick up a box. Why not? I’ll eat them in moderation. It’ll be fine.
That is the lie you tell yourself before you bite into the goodness that is a @thereallittledebbie Christmas Tree.
I possibly am going to need a support group.
That is the lie you tell yourself before you bite into the goodness that is a @thereallittledebbie Christmas Tree.
I possibly am going to need a support group.
An exhausting day for Bentlee and Ellie.
December 4, 2024 at 11:23 PM
An exhausting day for Bentlee and Ellie.
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Find our full list, including Awards of Merit and Finalists, here:
The Christianity Today Book Awards - Christianity Today
Let’s say you want to write a book. You’ve got a captivating story to tell or a compelling argument to make. You’ve got a gift with words. That’s a good start! But there are other things you (probably...
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December 3, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Announcing the winners of this year’s Christianity Today Book Awards!
Congratulations to our Book of The Year: “What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church” by @gavinortlund.bsky.social Zondervan.
Read more: bit.ly/3ZDOuQ8
Congratulations to our Book of The Year: “What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church” by @gavinortlund.bsky.social Zondervan.
Read more: bit.ly/3ZDOuQ8
December 3, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Announcing the winners of this year’s Christianity Today Book Awards!
Congratulations to our Book of The Year: “What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church” by @gavinortlund.bsky.social Zondervan.
Read more: bit.ly/3ZDOuQ8
Congratulations to our Book of The Year: “What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church” by @gavinortlund.bsky.social Zondervan.
Read more: bit.ly/3ZDOuQ8
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Pray for South Korea, and for the world, in this scary, dangerous time.
Don’t worry a modern first-world democracy can’t fall to an authoritarian takeover [reads news feed] okay fine but THIS first world democracy can’t fall to an authoritarian takeover, our traditions and institutions are too robust and oh lol look at that weird dude wrapped in a flag carrying a cross
December 3, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Pray for South Korea, and for the world, in this scary, dangerous time.
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“Kiss Me” has been covered by Sabrina Carpenter, interpolated into the single “Moonlight Floor” by Lisa of Blackpink, and even revealed as one of Mark Zuckerberg’s “fight jams.”
Sixpence None the Richer's lead singer talks to CT about reuniting the band:
www.christianitytoday.com/2024/12/sixp...
Sixpence None the Richer's lead singer talks to CT about reuniting the band:
www.christianitytoday.com/2024/12/sixp...
Strike Up the Band: Sixpence None the Richer Goes Back on Tour - Christianity Today
With its perennial hit “Kiss Me” still in our ears and on our playlists, the Christian band reunites with nothing to prove.
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December 3, 2024 at 1:01 PM
“Kiss Me” has been covered by Sabrina Carpenter, interpolated into the single “Moonlight Floor” by Lisa of Blackpink, and even revealed as one of Mark Zuckerberg’s “fight jams.”
Sixpence None the Richer's lead singer talks to CT about reuniting the band:
www.christianitytoday.com/2024/12/sixp...
Sixpence None the Richer's lead singer talks to CT about reuniting the band:
www.christianitytoday.com/2024/12/sixp...
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Congrats to @drleahpayne.bsky.social for winning @christianitytoday.bsky.social's award for history book of the year! www.christianitytoday.com/2024/12/chri...
The Christianity Today Book Awards - Christianity Today
Let’s say you want to write a book. You’ve got a captivating story to tell or a compelling argument to make. You’ve got a gift with words. That’s a good start! But there are other things you (probably...
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December 3, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Congrats to @drleahpayne.bsky.social for winning @christianitytoday.bsky.social's award for history book of the year! www.christianitytoday.com/2024/12/chri...
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Good journalism costs money.
But not *that* much money. Subscribe to @christianitytoday.bsky.social today for half price www.christianitytoday.com/membership/p...
But not *that* much money. Subscribe to @christianitytoday.bsky.social today for half price www.christianitytoday.com/membership/p...
Promotion - Christianity Today
Christianity Today provides thoughtful, biblical perspectives on theology, church, ministry, and culture on the official site of Christianity Today Magazine.
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December 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Good journalism costs money.
But not *that* much money. Subscribe to @christianitytoday.bsky.social today for half price www.christianitytoday.com/membership/p...
But not *that* much money. Subscribe to @christianitytoday.bsky.social today for half price www.christianitytoday.com/membership/p...
“Rather than obsessively, staring at our own past our future, through this Psalm (Psalm 110), Christ invites us to look at Him to find forgiveness, identity, peace, security, & hope and what He has done for us in the past & what He will do when He returns in the future…”
@ct_mag #advent
@ct_mag #advent
December 2, 2024 at 2:17 PM
“Rather than obsessively, staring at our own past our future, through this Psalm (Psalm 110), Christ invites us to look at Him to find forgiveness, identity, peace, security, & hope and what He has done for us in the past & what He will do when He returns in the future…”
@ct_mag #advent
@ct_mag #advent
November 29, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
May you spend your day in whatever way brings you peace, gratitude and hope.
May you spend your day in whatever way brings you peace, gratitude and hope.
November 28, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
May you spend your day in whatever way brings you peace, gratitude and hope.
May you spend your day in whatever way brings you peace, gratitude and hope.
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Some of you have asked for an audio and video version of the weekly “Moore to the Point” newsletter. They’ll be up every Monday.
Here’s this week’s on how a dark sense of humor can do you good.
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Here’s this week’s on how a dark sense of humor can do you good.
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Video: youtu.be/IkwvMNdtP1U?...
Moore to the Point: How a Dark Sense of Humor Can Save You From Cynicism.
Podcast Episode · The Russell Moore Show · 11/25/2024 · 14m
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November 25, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Some of you have asked for an audio and video version of the weekly “Moore to the Point” newsletter. They’ll be up every Monday.
Here’s this week’s on how a dark sense of humor can do you good.
Audio: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Video: youtu.be/IkwvMNdtP1U?...
Here’s this week’s on how a dark sense of humor can do you good.
Audio: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Video: youtu.be/IkwvMNdtP1U?...
November 23, 2024 at 8:59 PM