If we pay attention to Joseph we might see how to image a protective Father, how to preach a life-affirming gospel, even in a culture captivated by the spirit of Herod.
Author Archives: Russell Moore
Racial Justice and the Godness of God
January 17, 2011 – 11:43 AM
On a wall in my study hangs one of my favorite pictures. It’s a photograph of a line of civil rights workers—in the heat of the Jim Crow era. They’re standing shoulder-to-shoulder, all of them bearing a sandwich-board-type sign. The sign reads, simply: “I Am a Man.” I love that picture because it sums up [...]
TGC Asks Russell Moore: How Do We Work for Justice and Not Undermine Evangelism?
October 20, 2010 – 8:00 AM
Note from TGC's editorial director, Collin Hansen: The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization opened on Saturday, October 16, and will conclude on Monday, October 25. The event, convening 4,000 evangelical leaders from 200 countries, will address issues including poverty, HIV/AIDS, consumerism, and child sex trafficking. No doubt these and many other issues crying for [...]
Why Conservative Evangelicals Should Thank God for Clark Pinnock
August 17, 2010 – 8:38 AM
I was sad to see Gregory Boyd’s announcement that his fellow theologian Clark Pinnock has died. Clark Pinnock led me to faith in Christ. Now, it’s true, I never met Pinnock until many years after I came to know Jesus. But the gospel I believed came through preachers who were trained by Clark Pinnock. More than that, the nation’s largest evangelical denomination would never have turned back to biblical inerrancy had it not been for a man who would later reject the concept.
At my home church in coastal Mississippi, two of the most significant pastors in my young life were trained at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in the 1960s. There they sat in the classroom of an impressive young scholar, Pinnock, who was willing to challenge the bureaucratic morbidity of his adopted denomination. Pinnock, concerned that Southern Baptists like other Baptists before them were sliding into theological liberalism, presented a strong case to his students for the complete truthfulness of the Scriptures. More than that, he presented an overall narrative of God’s work in Christ Jesus that many students found compelling. Beyond the classroom, Pinnock’s students were zealous, pressing the gospel in some of the roughest parts of the French Quarter and beyond.
Death Isn't Natural
April 3, 2010 – 6:45 AM
On a Saturday long ago, our Lord Jesus was a corpse. This isn’t natural. Problem is, death seems normal to us. Darwinian naturalism, along with most contemporary philosophies, assumes that death is the natural ending point to life. The Christian gospel insists otherwise, seeing death as an alien invader of the cosmic order, a curse [...]
What Evangelicals Can Learn from Saint Patrick
March 17, 2010 – 3:18 PM
To our shame, most evangelical Protestants tend to think of Saint Patrick as a leprechaun. As we watch the annual drunken parades and pop-culture consumerism of the March holiday, no one could seem more removed from biblical Christianity than Patrick. And yet, Patrick’s life was closer to a revival meeting than to a shamrock-decorated drinking party named in his honor.
Avatar: Rambo in Reverse
December 19, 2009 – 9:57 AM
If you can get a theater full of people in Kentucky to stand and applaud the defeat of their country in war, then you’ve got some amazing special effects. I just left opening night of James Cameron’s gazillion-dollar epic film Avatar. The reviews were right. The plot is laughably clichéd. And the special effects are [...]
The Princess and the Frog? Yes and Neaux
December 16, 2009 – 7:07 AM
As one who grew up right across the state line from New Orleans and spent most of my young life romping through its streets and marshes, I took my family to see Disney’s latest animated film “The Princess and the Frog,” set in the Crescent City and the bayous around it.
Jesus Has AIDS
December 1, 2009 – 5:15 PM
Jesus has AIDS. Just reading that in the type in front of you probably has some of you angry. Let me help you see why that is, and, in so doing, why caring for those with AIDS is part of the gospel mandate given to us in the Great Commission.
Feel the Horror of the Stories Around You
Several years ago Jessica, a new Christian, found her father hanging from a rope in her room, dead by his own hand. She was haunted by this horror, of course, and even more so because it was obvious he had planned to be found in a place where she’d be the one to find him. [...]