In the cheerful spirit of engaging the "other side" when it comes to political and cultural issues, "The RJ Moeller Show" is proud to present our conversation with author and commentator Jonathan Merritt.
RJ Moeller
R.J. Moeller graduated from Taylor University in 2005 with a degree in Business and is currently a graduate student in the Masters of Divinity program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. R.J. also works as the director of communications for conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager and his "Prager University" project.
R.J. is the writer, editor, and procurer of his own website “A Voice in the Wilderness” (rjmoeller.com) where he discusses the intersection of theology, culture, and free market economics, as well as producing his own weekly podcast “The R.J. Moeller Show.” He has been published in World Magazine, and contributes to The Acton Institute, Education News.org, Ricochet.com, and Americans For Prosperity.org.
R.J. loves to fish, play tennis, eat Chipotle, be disappointed by the Cubs, and hang with his rottweiler, Rudy. He lists among his most important intellectual and spiritual influences: G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Sowell, Dennis Prager, Francis Schaeffer, and Fyodor Dostoevsky."
You can find RJ on Facebook and follow him on Twitter at @rjmoeller.
Articles by RJ Moeller
Something we are very passionate about here at Values & Capitalism and "The RJ Moeller Show" is the highlighting of those people who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of entrepreneurial activities. Job-creators. Technology innovators. That's why we wanted to talk to Dr. George Savage!
We're locked and loaded with two fantastic interviews for you this week on the latest episode of "The RJ Moeller Show!" First up: author Dr. Hunter Baker, associate dean of arts and sciences and associate professor of political science at Union University in Tennessee.
Sometimes you just know you're going to get along with someone, even before meeting (or Skyping with) them. Such was the case with both of my guests this week on Values & Capitalism's official podcast: "The RJ Moeller Show."
Our featured guest this week on "The RJ Moeller Show" is James Poulos. James is a columnist at The Daily Caller and a contributor at Forbes, Ricochet and Vice.
While speaking to this week's featured guest on "The RJ Moeller Show," Dr. Charles Murray, R.J. said he felt like Wayne and Garth bumping into Alice Cooper backstage: "I wasn't worthy!" Charles Murray has been one of the preeminent thinkers in the country for three decades. He is a political scientist, author and renowned libertarian.
The contentious debates over issues related to Obamacare and the HHS "contraception mandate" have flooded news headlines for the past few months, and our first guest on this week's episode of "The RJ Moeller Show" is the perfect person to ask about such matters.
Dr. Albert Mohler is the president of Southern Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and one of the most influential Christian public thinkers alive today. R.J. and Dr. Mohler chat about growing up in small-town Florida, the shift to the left on Christian college campuses when it comes to matters of economics, and the optimism that Ronald Reagan injected back into our society in 1980.
Dr. Jay Richards is our featured guest on this, the newest episode of The RJ Moeller Show. Dr. Richards is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute where he directs the Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, and is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics.
Our very special guest this week on The RJ Moeller Show is none other than novelist, social commentator and all-around nice guy, Andrew Klavan. Andrew is the author of such internationally bestselling novels as True Crime, filmed by Clint Eastwood, and Don’t Say A Word, filmed starring Michael Douglas.
This week's episode of The RJ Moeller Show is RJ's final one from Chicago. From here on out, the Values & Capitalism podcast will originate from Los Angeles where RJ moved to work for syndicated radio talk show host Dennis Prager.
This week's exciting new episode of The RJ Moeller Show finds RJ and the gang discussing everything from Paul Ryan's recent CPAC speech to the new EP from singer/songwriter Andrew Belle, "The Daylight."
In this week's episode of The RJ Moeller Show, RJ welcomes vice president of the Family Research Council, Rob Schwarzwalder, and Mark Hemingway, online editor of The Weekly Standard.
Canadian publisher, journalist, political commentator, and champion of free speech Ezra Levant is this week's featured guest on the Values & Capitalism podcast. Ezra is the founder and former publisher of the Western Standard, hosts The Source daily on Sun News Network and has written several books on politics.
While the music industry fiddled in Hollywood last night at the 54th Grammy’s, the birthplace of Western civilization—Greece—burned. Literally. After learning of yet another series of unavoidable budget cuts passing their parliament, the over-unionized descendants of Aristotle, Plato and the austere Spartan warrior took to the streets in order to exact revenge on the very leaders they themselves have voted for over the past half-century.
Victor Davis Hanson knows history like a high school girl knows texting: intimately. In his second appearance on The R.J. Moeller Show—Professor Hanson talks about the important election issues in 2012, the perpetually rising tensions with Iran, and the need young people should feel to read classic works of literature, philosophy and history.
President Barack Obama spoke at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C., this week and our Commander-in-Chief had some interesting things to say about what exactly a Judeo-Christian, biblical worldview of economics looks like.
The year was 1994. I was about 11 years old. My father, as he was wont to do, was watching his favorite weekly news program, The McLaughlin Group. As I sat and tried desperately to understand what was being said on the television screen, a man named Michael Barone chimed in...
Joining R.J. and Eric Teetsel on this week's episode is Tim King, director of communications for Jim Wallis's organization, Sojourners. A native of New Hampshire, Tim is a graduate of North Park University, a former community organizer in Chicago, and has been with Sojourners since 2008.
Is this situation familiar to you? You are hanging out with a liberal friend, maybe at your local fair-trade coffee shop. Another friend you’ve been waiting for shows up late because he or she had to stop at the store and pick up something.