Stories tagged with: russell moore

• Moore clarifies comments on Trump supporters

  by David Roach, posted Monday, December 19, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore has clarified that he never intended to criticize all evangelical supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, noting many were motivated by "biblical convictions" and "voted their conscience."

  In a Monday (Dec. 19) blog post, Moore acknowledged “pointed conversations in my denominational family about the election" over the past month, "some of them ... directed at me." Read More

• Moore contrasts 'world's form of power' to God's

  by Marilyn Stewart, posted Wednesday, October 19, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo by Joe Fontenot

  NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Russell Moore, in chapel at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, urged listeners not to depend on the wrong power for ministry and service.

  "When we buy into the premises of the world, the world's form of power, the world's form of strength, and the world's form of influence, we buy into something that not only is a lie, it also ultimately harms us," said Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Read More

• Moore agrees with Trump: He is 'nasty,' needs Gospel

  by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, May 10, 2016 (8 years ago)

  "We sing worse things about ourselves in our hymns on Sunday mornings."

  -- Russell Moore

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Russell Moore has finally found agreement with one of Donald Trump's insulting tweets.

  Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, responded in television interviews Monday evening (May 9) to the following Twitter comment from the presumptive Republican presidential nominee early in the day: Read More

• Trump knocks Moore after national media comments

  by Art Toalston, posted Monday, May 09, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from CBS

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Russell Moore spoke and Donald Trump took notice in one of his Twitter posts today (May 9).

  Trump's tweet came the morning after Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, criticized the presumptive Republican nominee on CBS' "Face the Nation" and, two days earlier, in a New York Times online op-ed.

  "@drmoore Russell Moore is truly a terrible representative of Evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. A nasty guy with no heart!" Trump tweeted at 5:05 a.m. May 9. Read More

• Call it 'genocide,' coalition urges Obama on ISIS

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, February 19, 2016 (8 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Russell Moore, head of Southern Baptists' Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has again called on the Obama administration to designate Christians as genocide victims at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria -- this time as part of a broad coalition.

  Moore was among more than 110 signers of a Feb. 17 letter to President Obama urging him to categorize as genocide the terrorist campaign of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) against religious minorities in Iraq and Syria. The communities cited in the letter as victims of genocide include Christians, Yazidis, Shia Muslims, the Turkmen and the Shabak. Read More

• Trump candidacy: Jeffress, Falwell, Moore weigh in

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, January 28, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- With attention focused on Donald Trump surrounding his withdrawal from a Jan. 28 Republican presidential debate, Southern Baptists remain divided regarding his candidacy.

  Trump drew praise recently from Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress during a joint appearance in Iowa and an endorsement from Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. Meanwhile, Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore continued to urge Christians not to vote for Trump with an essay in an issue of the conservative publication National Review dedicated to opposing the New York businessman's candidacy. Read More

• Moore's 'Onward' wins C.T. Book of Year award

  by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, December 17, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore's latest book -- "Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel" -- is Christianity Today's Book of the Year.

  The leading evangelical magazine announced Wednesday (Dec. 16), its editorial team had selected Moore's book as the winner of its first-ever "Beautiful Orthodoxy" award as the release during 2015 that best exemplifies the magazine's "pursuit of truthfulness and loveliness." Christianity Today also named the book by the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) as the winner in the politics and public life category. Read More

• Aborted babies dumped in landfills, Ohio AG reports

  by Tom Strode, posted Monday, December 14, 2015 (8 years ago)

  Unborn babies deserve "the same dignity and respect anyone else would be given, even in death." -- Barrett Duke

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- Planned Parenthood's public persona now includes a report that the remains of babies aborted at some of its centers are dumped in landfills.

  An investigation of three Planned Parenthood affiliates in Ohio showed that all of them send the remains of aborted children to companies that dispose of them at landfill sites, state Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Dec. 11. The fetal remains apparently are mixed at the landfills with "common residential and commercial trash," DeWine said in a letter to the director of the state Department of Health. Read More

• Moore's critique of Trump draws media focus

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, December 09, 2015 (8 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore has renewed his criticism of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, drawing a wave of media attention for denouncing the businessman's proposal to temporarily prevent all Muslims from entering the U.S. Read More

• Senate cuts PPFA funds, challenges Obama

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, December 04, 2015 (8 years ago)

  Senate achieves "landmark victory for all who prioritize comprehensive women's health care over abortion industry profits."

  -- Marjorie Dannenfelser

  WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. Senate passed a budget-related bill Thursday night (Dec. 3) that challenges President Obama to carry out his promised veto to protect, in part, the country's No. 1 abortion provider.

  Senators voted 52-47 in a nearly party-line roll call for a reconciliation measure that cuts 80 to 90 percent of federal funds in the next year for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and its affiliates. The legislation also repeals fundamental sections of the controversial 2010 health care law backed by the president and opposed by nearly all pro-life organizations. Read More