More news from the world of evangelicalism. Here is Christianity Today CEO Timothy Dalrymple: What makes a person great in the world is not the possession of extraordinary talent but a fierce and persistent application of talent, guided by courage...
Russell Moore
“‘Crazy’ has become a church-growth strategy”
Are you a pastor who wants your church to grow? There is a new church-growth formula out there. If you are a pro-Trump, anti-critical race theory, anti-mask, and anti-vaccine pastor your church will grow. It will not grow through evangelism,...
Paige Patterson and the “black girl”
In a recently leaked letter to the leadership of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Russell Moore letter he wrote: Another SBC leader used constant pressure against me in protest of our hiring of Dan Darling and Trillia...
Early responses to the leaked Russell Moore letter
What letter? Get up to speed here. An array of responses: Thread and the backstory: Here’s more: Meanwhile, Albert Mohler is running for office:...
We now have a better understanding of why Russell Moore left his post with the Southern Baptist Convention
And it has little to do directly with Trump. Here is Paul O’Donnell and Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: For years before his resignation last month as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the...
Southern Baptists in the wake of Russell Moore’s departure
The most sane voice in the Southern Baptist Church has finally had enough. Russell Moore just left for Christianity Today. Meanwhile, the country’s largest Protestant denomination approaches its annual meeting in Nashville as a deeply divided body. Can the members...
Some early reaction to Russell Moore’s move to Christianity Today
Get up to speed here. Brian Zahnd being Brian Zahnd: Radical subjectivist Ed Stetzer? Not sure what this means. Sounds like some pretty intense SBC inside baseball: I will try to add some more throughout the day. Check back. UPDATE:...
Russell Moore leaves his Southern Baptist post. Joins Christianity Today
This was bound to happen sooner or later. Russell Moore, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is leaving his post to head-up a new public theology program at Christianity Today. There are a lot...
Russell Moore: Young evangelicals are walking away because the church itself does not believe what the church teaches
This is Russell Moore at his best: Many of us have observed, anecdotally, a hemorrhaging of younger evangelicals from churches and institutions in recent years. What seems different about this quiet exodus is that the departures are heightened not among...
It is hard to be a prophet when the people you are prophesying against are paying your salary.
Apparently Southern Baptists are not happy that the leader of the public policy arm is not a fan of Donald Trump. Here is Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: In a long-awaited report released Monday (Feb. 1), a task force...