US conservative faith leaders praise Johnson for House’s approval of foreign aid
United States RNS Conservative religious leaders who had been imploring Speaker Mike Johnson to back assistance for Ukraine and Israel in fighting their wars celebrated the House’s passage of foreign aid packages Saturday, clearing the way for the measures to go to the Senate. Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious […]
US-Mexico border: Many Christian voters in US see immigration as a crisis. How to address it is where they differ.
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the differing stances among US Christians on the issue of immigration…
In the US, Brent Leatherwood, new ERLC president, says he won’t tell Christians how to vote
United StatesRNS The new chief ethicist for the Southern Baptist Convention hopes his fellow Southern Baptists will vote in the upcoming mid-term elections in ways “that protect life, that protect religious liberty, that protect marriage.” But in the end, he said, it’s up to each person to vote the way they see best. “I will […]
Russell Moore parts from Southern Baptists personally as well as professionally
RNS Russell Moore, who recently resigned as the Southern Baptist Convention’s chief ethicist, has also moved on from the nation’s largest Protestant denomination personally, attending a Tennessee church that is not affiliated with the SBC. TJ Tims, lead pastor of Immanuel Nashville, announced Tuesday on social media that Moore is now the church’s minister in […]
Southern Baptists: Russell Moore leaves leadership, but denomination’s troubles remain
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, looks at the issues facing the largest Protestant denomination in the US…
In the US, Russell Moore, Baptist ethicist and Trump critic, to leave ERLC for ‘Christianity Today’
Nashville, Tennessee, USRNS Russell Moore, the embattled Southern Baptist ethicist and “Never Trumper,” is resigning as president of his denomination’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Religion News Service has learned. Moore will be joining the staff of Christianity Today – the leading evangelical magazine, founded by the late evangelist Billy Graham – as a public theologian. […]
Southern Baptist report calls never-Trumper Russell Moore’s agency a “significant distraction”
RNS In a long-awaited report released on Monday, a taskforce commissioned to study the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission calls the convention’s public policy arm a “significant distraction from the Great Commission work of Southern Baptists”. Blaming the ERLC for the loss of more than a million dollars in constituent church donations […]
In depth – Updated: Dispute over Russell Moore spurs pushback among some Southern Baptists
RNS Jack Graham believes in the Southern Baptist Convention. He’s a former president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and once traveled the country drumming up support for the Cooperative Program, the church giving program that funds much of the convention’s missions. Yet, after three years, Graham’s congregation, Prestonwood Baptist Church, which claims 45,000 members, […]
Updated: Trump critic Russell Moore, ERLC to face scrutiny by Southern Baptists
Updated: 10.15amNashville, Tennessee, US RNS The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will launch a taskforce to examine the activities of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the convention’s public policy organisation headed by the theologian and author Russell Moore. Southern Baptist leaders fear controversy over Moore could lead to a drop in donations. Russell Moore, […]
At Caring Well conference, SBC leaders hear criticism of abuse response
Dallas, USRNS Southern Baptist leaders wrestled with questions of procedure and accountability during a gathering on sexual abuse this week, grappling with how best to address an issue some say the denomination took far too long to address. After a first day focused on stories of abuse survivors, the Caring Well conference, organised by the Southern […]