Tag Archives: Russell Moore

The Associated Press reports: Divisions over race, politics, gender and LGBTQ issues are roiling America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, ahead of a meeting of its executive committee next week. On the agenda are two items reflecting those divisions: A recommendation that a church in Kennesaw, Georgia, be ousted from the SBC because it accepted LGBTQ people into …

The Hill reports: Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. on Tuesday defended the Trump administration amid criticism over conditions migrant children have faced in U.S. detention facilities. Falwell lashed out at Russell D. Moore, a theologian and president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, for criticizing the administration following reports of detained migrant children held in unsanitary and inadequate conditions. …

Via press release: A pastor in Texas is calling Southern Baptists to be alarmed about promotion of social justice within the Southern Baptist Convention. Pastor Arnold, a lifelong Southern Baptist, declares that “most Southern Baptist churches have no idea how wide or deeply rooted that social justice is in the Convention.” As a result, pastor Arnold has submitted a resolution …

Yesterday Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore appeared on Face The Nation, where he denounced the Trump campaign as part of the “reality television moral sewage” seeping into American culture. That quote must have given Donald Trump a sleepless night, hence the 3AM response seen above. And yet Trump continues to claim that evangelicals love him.

Evangelical leader Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, appeared on CNN last night to denounce Donald Trump as a unrepentant serial adulterer who has destroyed families. And then there’s Trump involvement in the sinful gambling industry, which also destroys families. Moore also has a problem with Trump’s declaration that he’s done nothing worthy of …

“The Confederate Battle Flag may mean many things, but with those things it represents a defiance against abolition and against civil rights. The symbol was used to enslave the little brothers and sisters of Jesus, to bomb little girls in church buildings, to terrorize preachers of the gospel and their families with burning crosses on front lawns by night. That …

Via the Tennessean: The Southern Baptist Convention’s top policy official has a message for Alabama Christians wringing their hands over legal same-sex marriage. It was unavoidable, and accepting it doesn’t mean you’re conceding defeat. Not accepting it means you need to reexamine your faith. Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, opened the floor …

Miranda Blue writes at Right Wing Watch: Next week, American Religious Right leaders including the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore, pastor Rick Warren, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput, and Latter-Day Saints official Henry Eyring will be joining opponents of LGBT equality from around the world at an interfaith conference on the “complementarity of man and woman in marriage” hosted by …

“Homosexual feelings are often the result of underlying sexual trauma or emotional detachment from same-sex peers and parents – when individuals realize the source of their feelings and pursue healing in their lives, change happens. In my work with the International Healing Foundation, so much of our ministry is dedicated to working with church leadership to help them better understand …

“Homosexuals can change and have changed through all types of helpful Christian therapy, Dr. Moore. I’ve met them. I Cor. 6 also clearly tells us that redeemed sinners of all stripes can change, else why the reference, ‘such WERE some of you?’ What galls me the most is how he’s playing right into the hands of Big Gay, which is …

This morning Russell Moore, the president of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, denounced “ex-gay” torture at the group’s Nashville convention on sexuality. “The utopian idea if you come to Christ and if you go through our program, you’re going to be immediately set free from attraction or anything you’re struggling with, I don’t think that’s a Christian …