Leading Your Family in an Election Year with Russell Moore

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Adam Griffin, Chelsea Griffin, and Cassie Bryant are joined by Russell Moore to discuss how to lead and disciple our families when it comes to politics and current events.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

You’ve got a new book, “Losing Our Religion.” What led you to write this book?
Looking at the year ahead and expecting it to be full of tension and division, how can Christians stand out and be different in a good way?
How are we gonna keep churches from devouring each other over politics this year?
How can moms and dads help their families not get caught up in the spectacle of our news cycle to see what’s going on?
Anything specific that you’re seeing that we should be concerned about as church members and leaders?
Who do you see benefitting from all the division and fear right now?
Could you give us some general wisdom on how you would advise parents to have good conversations about American politics with their kids?
Can you share with us what that has looked like for you as a parent? Is it ever hard for you to love Jesus more than your family?
How can parents use current events and cultural realities in the way they disciple their families and why is that important?

Guest Bio:

Russell Moore is Editor in Chief of Christianity Today and is the author of Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America. He also hosts the weekly podcast The Russell Moore Show and is co-host of Christianity Today’s weekly news and analysis podcast, The Bulletin.

An ordained Baptist minister, Moore served previously as President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and, before that, as the chief academic officer and dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also taught theology and ethics. Moore was a Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics and currently serves on the board of the Becket Law and as a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum in Washington, D.C.

A native Mississippian, he and his wife Maria are the parents of five sons. They live in Nashville, where he teaches the Bible regularly at their congregation, Immanuel Church.

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