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Our Bizarro New World Where Russell Moore Is a ‘Liberal’ + Russell Moore
By Roxanne Stone — October 5, 2023
Katelyn and Roxy talk to Moore about why he left the SBC, how he thinks of his own legacy there, and trying to lead a Christian institution when it’s tearing apart at the seams.
What Russell Moore knew
By Tyler Huckabee — August 11, 2023
(RNS) — Prophets have no honor in their own country. Moore’s known that better than anyone for a long, long time.
In new book, Russell Moore urges evangelicals to stop lying and come back to Jesus
By Bob Smietana — July 25, 2023
(RNS) — Once a rising star among Southern Baptists, Moore lost his job after criticizing Donald Trump and standing by abuse survivors.
SBC official Brent Leatherwood urges Tennessee lawmakers to pass red flag law
By Bob Smietana — April 18, 2023
(RNS)— Head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the SBC, Leatherwood is calling on legislators to pass a law to remove firearms from people who are a danger to themselves and others.
As Roe’s potential fall nears, abortion abolitionists turn on ‘pro-life elites’
By Bob Smietana — May 19, 2022
(RNS) — Abortion abolitionists, including a leading candidate for SBC president, want an end to abortion, with no exceptions, and say women who have illegal abortions should face murder charges.
For red-state clergy who back abortion rights, losing Roe is a call to action
By Bob Smietana and Alejandra Molina — May 4, 2022
(RNS) — A new version of the Clergy Consultation Service, which helped women get abortions before Roe v. Wade, may be organized in response to abortion rights restrictions.
Russell Moore defamation lawsuit withdrawn by Georgia pastor Mike Stone
By Bob Smietana — December 11, 2021
(RNS) — For now, the legal battle between the two high-profile evangelical leaders is over.
Mike Stone files lawsuit against SBC rival Russell Moore
By Bob Smietana — October 20, 2021
(RNS) — Stone claims that Moore cost him the SBC presidency.
NRB spokesman Dan Darling fired after pro-vaccine statements on ‘Morning Joe’
By Bob Smietana — August 27, 2021
(RNS) — Daniel Darling, senior vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters, was fired Friday (Aug. 27) after refusing to say his pro-vaccine statements were mistaken.
Russell Moore, Baptist ethicist and Trump critic, to leave ERLC for Christianity Today
By Bob Smietana — May 18, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — Moore’s work as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm was overshadowed by the Trump presidency.
SBC report calls never-Trumper Russell Moore’s agency a ‘significant distraction’
By Bob Smietana — February 1, 2021
(RNS) — A new report claims a decline in giving is linked to controversial statements — including criticism of Trump — by a leading Baptist ethicist.
Alabama pastor Ed Litton, known for racial reconciliation work, joins SBC presidential race
By Bob Smietana — January 21, 2021
(RNS) — So far, four Southern Baptist leaders, each representing a different segment of the SBC, plan to run for president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Trump critic Russell Moore, ERLC to face scrutiny by Southern Baptists
By Bob Smietana — February 18, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — The inquiry into the SBC's policy arm, headed by Moore, a vocal critic of President Trump since his first campaign for the White House, comes after complaints from members to the SBC's Executive Committee.
Russell Moore: Southern Baptists feel the horror ‘more viscerally’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 7, 2017
(RNS) — Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm, talks about how Southern Baptists feel the attack on one of their churches personally, and can remain divided on gun control.
Southern Baptists talk sex, LGBT issues at parenting conference
By Holly Meyer — August 26, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (USA Today) — The Friday morning panel prompted a demonstration from Faith in America, a nonprofit that tries to stop 'harmful anti-LGBT religious teachings.'
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