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A Book that Changed Russell Moore's Life

Southern Baptist pastor and leader Russell Moore recently highlighted one of his favorite books of all time—a series of essays by the southern novelist Walker Percy titled Signposts in a Strange Land. Moore wrote, "It is hard to overstate how much this book has shaped my ministry. First of all, Percy articulated what I sensed was wrong with nominal [Christianity]. It was, he argued, not Christian at all but rather Stoic … But, most of all, in this book Percy taught me that the collapse of [the political power and outward display of] Christendom is not a catastrophe. As Percy wrote:

The good news is that in becoming the minority in all countries, a remnant, the Church also becomes a world church in the true sense, bound to no culture, not even to the West of the old Christendom, by no means triumphant but rather a pilgrim church witnessing to a world in travail and yet a world to which it will appear ever stranger and more outlandish.

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