Books with Ashley Hales: Tolstoy, Carr, Vonnegut, Worthen, and More

The Russell Moore Show

Christianity Today, Russell Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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It’s time for another books episode. Russell Moore is joined again by Ashley Hales, the former producer of the show and now CT’s editorial director for print, in a discussion about what they’re reading now and about how reading as a practice is necessary and helpful in a windblown world. What books are you loving? And which books would you be sure to pack if you were planning to be marooned on a desert island? Email us: [email protected]. Books/essays mentioned in this episode: Learning in War-Time by C. S. Lewis War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Superbloom by Nicholas Carr Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror by Andrey Mir Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Silas Marner by George Eliot Spellbound by Molly Worthen The Theological Imagination by Judith Wolfe Special offer for listeners of The Russell Moore Show: Click here for 25% off a subscription to CT magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.0	The three offices should not be compartmentalized.
0:48.7	They are interconnected and essential for Christian faithfulness in the home, the church, and society.
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1:00.6	A lot of experiences that we think are completely unanchored, unmoored,
1:08.0	pun intended, from everything everything have been experienced before.
1:12.5	I mean, like in that very beginning of war and peace I'm talking about, it's a dinner party
1:16.7	where they're sitting around talking about the state of the world about what Napoleon is doing
1:22.1	and how nobody knows what's going to happen, you know, next week.
1:26.1	Nothing is new under the sun.
1:39.7	Hello, this is Russell Moore,
1:41.0	and you're listening to the Russellmore show
1:42.7	brought to you by Christianity today.
1:44.9	Every week, we explore here conversations and questions from a Christian perspective to help you sort out how to live as a follower of Jesus in confusing times.
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