Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. I find today's guest, Russell Moore,

a fascinating guy. He used to be the head of the Southern Baptist Convention, which is a big

deal in the evangelical world. And he probably doesn't remember this, but like a decade or so ago

when I was a production assistant here at NPR, I was doing what we

call a pre-interview with him over the phone.

And that's when you do stuff like ask about availability.

Can you get to a studio?

Here's the general range of topics the host is interested in.

And just in that brief phone call about logistics, he said some stuff that really elucidated some of the things I was

working through in terms of faith and growing up Christian and all that. He's got a new book out

called Losing Our Religion and Alter Call for Evangelical America. And in this interview with NPR

Scott Detrow, he talks about the existential threats facing Christianity and what he learned

from being exiled from his

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