‘Losing Our Religion’: In new book, Russell Moore urges evangelicals to stop lying and come back to Jesus
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, speaks with Russell Moore about his new book, ‘Losing Our Religion’…
Wow!: At Boston-area church, a theology lab tackles complex topics with humility, curiosity
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on how one US church is attempting to give its church members – and other interested Christians – a broader understanding of their faith and the way Christianity is lived out in the world…
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 […]
Frederick Buechner, Christian “writer’s writer” and “minister’s minister”, dies at 96
United StatesRNS Frederick Buechner was asked on numerous occasions how he would sum up everything he had preached and written in both his fiction and non-fiction. The answer, he said, was simply this: “Listen to your life”. Frederick Buechner in an undated image. PICTURE: Courtesy photo That theme was constant across more than six decades […]
Russell Moore named Christianity Today editor, Lynn Vincent to lead World Magazine
RNS Two of the most influential evangelical Christian magazines in the US named new leaders this week, hoping to set a new direction for the publications in tumultuous times. Russell Moore, the former Southern Baptist ethicist, was named editor in chief at Christianity Today. Lynn Vincent, a motorcycle-riding Navy veteran and New York Times best-selling […]
Updated: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims – US report
Updated: 8:45am, 24th May, 2022United StatesAP The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee – and thousands of its rank-and-file members – now have opportunities to address a scathing investigative report that says top SBC leaders stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations. The report, issued […]
Russia-Ukraine war: In the US, some pastors wonder about “end of days”
DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, reports on how some pastors in the US are seeing connections between the Ukraine conflict and Biblical prophecy and why that troubles some Christian scholars…
“At a crossroads”: Southern Baptist Convention faces leadership drain amid ongoing challenges
Following news of the resignation of Ronnie Floyd, president of its executive committee last week, BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, looks at the recent turmoil among leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention…
Beth Moore and Russell Moore share laughter, regrets at Nashville church
Nashville, Tennessee, USRNS Two of the best-known ex-Southern Baptist leaders in the country got together at a Nashville church on Thursday for a night filled with Bible verses, banter and bittersweet memories. The event, entitled “Lessons in Leaving (and Staying),” featured Bible teacher Beth Moore and ethicist Russell Moore – and was the first live […]
Russell Moore: Sickness, death from COVID-19 likely reducing some vaccine hesitancy
RNS Russell Moore, Southern Baptist ethicist-turned-public theologian, said that knowing people who became seriously ill or died from COVID-19 may be causing some vaccine-hesitant individuals to change their minds. “One of the things, I think, that is moving the needle a little bit, more than anything else, is the experience of seeing great suffering,” he […]