What Happens When You Look Away from the Minneapolis Shootings

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Russell Moore

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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You cannot hide a hardened heart behind the fact that you weren’t the one pulling the trigger. On occasion, we like to record audio versions of the latest from Russell’s weekly newsletter. Read this article here. Sign up for the newsletter, Moore to the Point, where Russell shares thoughtful takes on big questions, offers a Christian perspective on life, and recommends books and music he's enjoying. Submit a question for the show (and include a voice memo!) at questions@russellmoore.com Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Special offer for listeners of The Russell Moore Show: Click here for 25% off a subscription Watch this episode on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This paid message is from the Russell Moore Show. Here at the Russell Moore Show, we make space for the deeper questions of faith, the ones that don't always have answers. That's why we want to share a podcast we think many of you will appreciate, called With and Four, hosted by Dr. Pam King. Back for a brand new season, With and Four brings together psychology and spiritual wisdom
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0:34.5	and Parker Palmer on spiritual struggle and vocation among many others.
0:40.1	Follow with and four hosted by Dr. Pam King, wherever you're listening now.
0:59.6	Hello, this Russell Moore, and this is the audio version of the More to the Point newsletter.
1:06.4	You can get that newsletter in your inbox every Wednesday by clicking on the link in the show notes.
1:13.6	It's free. It comes every Wednesday. It includes also a desert island playlist and a desert island bookshelf with readers telling us what they would have with them for the rest of their
1:18.8	lives to read or to listen to if that was going to be all they could have. So, lots of interesting
1:25.0	stuff there. Today, I want to talk about a really dark
1:29.6	subject, and that is what we all as a country have lived through in the Minneapolis shootings
1:36.5	over the past couple weeks. In 1981, the novelist Walker Percy wrote a column that he titled, A View of Abortion with
1:46.8	Something to Offend Everybody. As a Christian, he took on what he considered to be the seared
1:53.7	consciences of pro-life people when they disregarded the poor women who don't get abortions
2:00.6	but can't feed their babies.
2:02.4	And as a medical doctor, he took on the seared consciences of pro-choice people who see the
2:08.4	unborn child as just a blob of detachable organic matter. His final word, though, was for the ones that he
2:16.3	assumed would be the winners to the supporters of
2:19.8	abortion he said according to the opinion polls it looks as if you may get your way but you're not
2:25.8	going to have it both ways you're going to be told what you're doing now what percy is talking
2:31.8	about here is bigger than one issue.
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