Moore to The Point: How a Book Club Helped Me to Live and to Die

The Russell Moore Show

Christianity Today, Russell Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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"The secret of all this is that it’s not really a book club; the books are the excuse we give ourselves to make sure we’re all there." Russell says as he shares about the weekly rhythm that changed his life. The Russell Moore Show is bringing Russell's weekly newsletter to all streaming platforms. Listen to his most recent newsletter every Monday! Subscribe to Russell's weekly newsletter here! Do you have questions for Russell Moore? Send them to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.8	Hello, this is Russell Moore, and this is the weekly audio version of the More to the Point newsletter.
1:16.9	And this week, I wanted to talk about something that I had written about in my onward column for the January-February issue of Christianity Today, which you can subscribe to in the link
1:30.4	in the show notes, but about a book club and how it helped me to live and to die.
1:36.9	Flannery O'Connor equipped one time when someone complained that her writing was not
1:41.6	uplifting enough, which one can obviously see where that complaint
1:46.7	would originate. She said, one old lady who wants her heart lifted, but you multiply her
1:52.7	250,000 times in what you get as a book club, end quote. For those of you who don't know much
1:59.7	about Flannery O'Connor, she did not mean that as a compliment.
2:03.2	For most of my life, I probably would have taken O'Connor's side in this, as in most things, probably.
2:09.3	Even apart from the least common denominator or sort of Book of the Month book clubs that she was talking about there, The word book club often connotes a grown-up
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