Beth Moore on Falling in Love with Ecclesiastes

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Christianity Today, Russell Moore

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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If you’ve ever wondered what a conversation about Ecclesiastes between Tigger and Eeyore sounds like, it’s your lucky day. Watch the full conversation on YouTube In a recent episode, Sho Baraka became the first guest to choose the book of Ecclesiastes for his Desert Island, “5 Books of the Bible” challenge we sometimes end our show with. So it seems fitting that a few weeks later we welcome Beth Moore to talk about the relevance and timeliness of these passages that weep for the seeming futility of the human experience. Together, Russell and Beth begin by exploring the relevance of the book for Christians and non-Christians alike. Then, they go on a free-wheeling exploration of the book including topics like surgeries and abandoned vineyards, Christmas Wig Exchanges, Stephen King, and, amazingly, Creed Bratton (if you know, you know). If you’ve ever had the thought, "I hate life,” and assumed the Bible was ignorant to the human experience of suffering, listen to hear how God has not only acknowledged the turmoil of our existential strivings, but has actually given us words for it. Resources mentioned in this episode: Chasing Vines by Beth Moore The Lost Art of Dying by Dr. Lydia Dugdale Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End by David Gibson 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. Submit a question for the show at [email protected] 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

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1:40.5	The other day I saw a video clip from a comedian who said, you know, one of the reasons that we have such a social media kind of nightmare around us right now is that there aren't enough people with group text threads where they can say whatever it is that they want to say. And so they go and choose to
2:03.3	say everything to complete strangers. I think we all know kind of what that's like. When you have a
2:10.2	guest in the house and then that guest leaves and it's just the people who really can say
2:16.9	anything to each other and nobody's going to
2:20.0	misunderstand, nobody's going to judge. Well, every week here, I have a guest with us. Sometimes it's
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