Moore to the Point: How a Dark Sense of Humor Can Save You From Cynicism.

The Russell Moore Show

Christianity Today, Russell Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:59.8	Hello, this is Russell Moore, and welcome to something new.
1:04.2	As many of you know, every Wednesday, my newsletter, more to the point, goes out to those
1:10.6	of you who sign up for it, and there are some of you who have said, I really would like to be able to listen to it while I'm driving back and forth from school or wherever I'm going. And so we finally said, okay, well, that's what we will do. So you can expect once a week for
1:30.9	us to talk about whatever it is that's on my mind in the newsletter, the Wednesday before.
1:38.2	And so this week, I'd like to talk about how a dark sense of humor might just be able to save you from cynicism.
1:46.6	And the reason I say that is because there was a meme that came out on social media last week
1:53.2	that said a dark sense of humor can be an early sign of dementia.
1:57.8	I don't think there was any peer-reviewed medical study behind that, but it was a meme that
2:03.6	was out there. And I read it to my wife, and she said, well, then you're in trouble because you think
2:09.5	Gallo's humor is one of the fruit of the spirit. And I think she's thinking about all kinds of
2:15.4	moments when, for instance, on election night some weeks ago,
2:20.1	I just raised my glass of Coke Zero and said, next year in Guantanamo.
2:25.7	Now, I don't think dark humor is a virtue, but I do think it can be a blessing,
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