Russell Moore
Advice to Christians on dealing with family at Thanksgiving
By Russell Moore — November 21, 2018
(RNS) — The family holiday table is no place to separate the wheat from the weeds.
Should we live to be 500? Christians and secularists come together over transhumanism
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 5, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — Transhumanism is 'a conversation that calls us, that challenges us to develop a deeper theology of technology,' according to Micah Redding, director of the Christian Transhumanist Association.
A reckoning for Southern Baptists, and an opportunity
By Jacob Lupfer — June 1, 2018
(RNS) — The daily drumbeat of bad news about SBC leaders has set the stage for the denomination’s annual meeting in Dallas this month. Will the meeting accelerate a decline? Or could it be the start of a revival? Our columnist's advice: Don’t write off the Southern Baptist Convention.
Rich Stearns to retire from charity behemoth World Vision
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 10, 2018
(RNS) — During his tenure, World Vision grew to collect $1 billion in annual revenue in 2017, making it No. 15 on Forbes’ list of the nation’s largest charities.
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.
Two Sundays, two mass shootings: Why do bad things happen to good people?
By Holly Meyer — October 8, 2017
(USA Today) — After a succession of bewildering violence, questions arise: Why does evil exist? Why didn't God intervene?
Trump’s evangelicals need to do the right thing
By Mark Silk — August 14, 2017
Walk away from this president.
In dramatic turnabout, Southern Baptists condemn white supremacy
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 2017
PHOENIX (RNS) The previous day, the Resolutions Committee declined to bring a similar statement to a vote.
How Trump is highlighting divisions among Southern Baptists
By Yonat Shimron — June 12, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The disagreements are serious, have the attention of leadership and could pose a financial threat to the Southern Baptist Convention, which unlike some other denominations is a network of independent churches.
Frances FitzGerald on how evangelicals lost their way
By David P. Gushee — April 12, 2017
(RNS) When religious folk get entangled with secular politicians in the political arena, the politicians always win.
Russell Moore faces a challenging road ahead
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 24, 2017
(RNS) Although his apology for being 'unnecessarily harsh' toward Trump supporters was accepted by the Southern Baptist Convention's top brass, the public voice of America's largest denomination still faces a groundswell of grass-roots discontent.
Southern Baptist leaders stand by Moore after his apologies
By Adelle M. Banks — March 20, 2017
(RNS) A new statement was released a week after ethicist Russell Moore and Southern Baptist leader Frank Page issued a shorter joint statement about how they 'fully support one another.'
Black Southern Baptists: ‘We are pulling for Dr. Moore’
By Adelle M. Banks — March 14, 2017
(RNS) With 81 percent of white evangelicals supporting Trump in the November election and Southern Baptists striving to improve on their history that includes a defense of slavery, the questions roiling around Moore have included matters of race.
Why evangelical opposition to Russell Moore is deluded
By Jacob Lupfer — March 14, 2017
(RNS) Anyone who thinks Russell Moore should lose his job is advancing a vile heresy and a dangerous idolatry — that Christian leaders should ardently praise the Republican Party’s chosen leader no matter how vile, obnoxious and un-Christian he is.
