Has the Evangelical Church lost its integrity, its credibility, what does it mean that the Church must

quote lose its religion in order to regain its soul?

We answer these questions and more with our guest and good friend

Dr Russell Moore, executive editor of Christian Today, an author of a brand new book called

Losing Our Religion, an Altar Call for Evangelical America. I'm your host Scott Ray and I'm your

co-host Sean McDow and this is Think Biblically a podcast from Talbot

School of Theology here at Biola University. Russell so glad to have you with us

again.

Oh, I'm always thrilled to be with you.

You're one of our very favorites here.

Well, likewise.

And so appreciate your book.

You know, this is one to read slowly and carefully. And my guess is it's also, it sounds

like it's the culmination of quite a long spiritual journey for you.

So how would you summarize the backstory behind this

that motivated you to write it at this time?

The backstory really came out of a bunch of conversations that I was having with people who were

coming to me and saying I'm just almost in a place of despair and I was actually also having that conversation myself with

with people that I trust and working through that sense of is is everything as crazy as it seems and is there

an off-ramp to all the craziness so it was it was working my way through those conversations

really was the the starting point right the book we had you on about five years ago

which was close to the beginning of this podcast interestingly enough you were one of our early

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