https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to russell moore en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/16/latest-book-evangelical-extremism-reflects-pervasive-tendency-beat-judaism-save-jesus Perhaps you’re in the crowd that’s baffled by the behavior of American evangelicals. How could these people who, according to this crowd, stood up for traditional moral values ( whatever those are ) and volunteered to build houses for poor… Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:04:43 EST Greg Carey 723c049a-d8a1-4ed6-ad06-0d65f14c9a07 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/08/15/russell-moore-claims-theres-crisis-evangelical-america-white-evangelicalism-exactly Russell Moore used to be one of the top officials of the most powerful religious organization in the country, the Southern Baptist Convention, before he was pushed out in 2021 for criticizing Donald Trump . Since then, Moore has rebranded… Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:57:49 EDT John Stoehr df22f7e3-0543-4a88-84d7-50940492c1d6 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/03/sbc-sexual-abuse-scandal-success-story-theological-vision-and-social-structure I don’t recall the specific date in late summer 1985—but I remember exactly where I was standing. In the sunshine, near the windows in the library of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. I was pulling Gustaf Aulén’s Christus Victor from the shelves… Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:12:58 EDT Diana Butler Bass 13516692-6b47-41b1-b495-92caeb55da62 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/31/sexual-abuse-inevitable-christian-patriarchy-just-take-look-doug-wilsons-christ-church On Sunday, May 22, a third-party investigation of sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention released a nearly 300-page report detailing the cover-up of hundreds of abuse accusations and an overall failure of leaders in the SBC to make any… Tue, 31 May 2022 04:13:32 EDT Cait West 7c478a52-bf76-46ee-9218-c0cba6a2095d https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/24/its-theology-stupid-why-shocking-sbc-report-anything-surprising On Sunday, an investigation firm called Guidepost Solutions released a 300-page report recounting a disturbingly familiar pattern of abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the mostly white, evangelical Protestant denomination that accounts for over 5% of the adult… Tue, 24 May 2022 05:22:59 EDT Chrissy Stroop, Jessica Johnson 2c4cfa52-e3ce-47fa-aafd-0aeba8705786 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/10/27/evangelicals-continue-speak-over-not-ex-vangelicals Christianity Today magazine just can’t seem to leave exvangelicals alone. On October 19, they published Tish Harrison Warren’s commentary “The Church Needs Reformation, Not Deconstruction.” Then, just two days later they published a column by former Southern Baptist Convention bigwig… Wed, 27 Oct 2021 05:52:19 EDT Chrissy Stroop 2e4c8f6a-02e3-4537-976f-dc26039a7f42 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/06/14/roots-white-evangelicalisms-crisis-are-white-evangelical-churches-not-republican In recent months, the Southern Baptist Convention has faced a steady stream of high-profile defections, including black pastors such as Charlie Dates , popular Bible teacher Beth Moore , and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore. The recent… Mon, 14 Jun 2021 10:36:35 EDT Jesse Curtis ac2f8782-8510-45db-8968-ee1c8e127a82 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/20/baptist-resolutions-signal-more-culture-war Because of the outspoken opposition to Donald Trump by some of its leaders, and its call (in a resolution just passed at its annual meeting in St. Louis) for removal of the Confederate flags from public places and churches, the… Mon, 20 Jun 2016 03:04:58 EDT Paul Harvey d894a2cc-2a11-4995-a13f-b48098d206a8 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/06/08/culture-warriors-surrender-battles-rage The culture wars are over, according to Barton Swaim, a former speechwriter for former South Carolina Gov. Mark Stanford. The left has won and all that’s left, according to Swaim, is to negotiate the terms of surrender. As evidence, Swaim… Wed, 08 Jun 2016 01:12:44 EDT Patricia Miller 7934cace-dcc6-436f-806b-718e8241508b https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/16/evangelicals-getting-trump-train In a short piece last week, I briefly discussed Trump’s social media war with Southern Baptist Russell Moore, who tweeted Old Testament prophecies at the presumptive Republican nominee while the unsuccessful casino mogul sprayed insults around the political spectrum (even… Mon, 16 May 2016 12:45:43 EDT Paul Harvey 47d57edf-c6ab-4226-9787-b1e0e7c97ad4 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/10/trumpist-strain-among-evangelicals-predates-religious-right @drmoore Russell Moore is truly a terrible representative of Evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. A nasty guy with no heart! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2016 In the space of a few days, presumptive… Tue, 10 May 2016 01:17:27 EDT Paul Harvey 6a93e72a-ed22-4cf1-ad12-5042d35d1328 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/06/dont-misread-russell-moores-disavowal-christian-nation-and-anti-trump-stance There’s Baptists and there’s Baptists; there’s politics, and there’s politics. Fri, 06 May 2016 03:39:20 EDT Daniel Schultz 00003684-a2b6-43e7-8084-d32a1b323834 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/05/03/trump-turns-evangelical-gop-coalition-topsy-turvy Donald Trump has a way of turning things topsy-turvy, and the religious world is certainly not exempt. The Southern Baptist Convention (or some of its leaders, anyway) have joined the Never Trump movement: Moore effectively announced his new mission in… Tue, 03 May 2016 01:54:08 EDT Daniel Schultz 03b704bf-5bac-45da-b04f-e13da65e4d71 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/13/divide-between-trumpvangelicals-and-rest-us In September of last year, I weighed in on the debate over whether evangelicals really do support Donald Trump in large numbers. I bring it back up because, since I wrote that first piece, a spate of articles have emerged… Wed, 13 Apr 2016 05:25:16 EDT Jonathan Orbell 33c0b21f-3428-45ac-a72d-46ca95a85165 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/04/06/why-trumpvangelicals-dont-need-ted-cruz-conservative-christianitys-authoritarian-streak Donald Trump’s bizarre rise seems to be, as new research suggests, the result of an increasing American attraction to authoritarian leadership. I’d like to suggest that if “a desire for order and a fear of outsiders” predicts Trump support, the… Wed, 06 Apr 2016 01:02:38 EDT Chrissy Stroop 09e0f63a-800a-44a7-ba47-53ec8e1cd99f https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/14/marriage-equality-new-scopes-moment-sort Is same-sex marriage the new evolution? I was prompted to think about this seemingly bizarre question by a conversation with Paul Miller, a very smart young alumnus of Gordon College, and a founder of the LGBTQ and allies advocacy organization… Mon, 14 Sep 2015 04:51:18 EDT Chrissy Stroop 9cf1292f-2968-4219-98df-752120040421 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/01/why-sbcs-russell-moore-wants-conservative-evangelicals-be-nicer In the 1970s, conservative evangelicals declared themselves defenders of the American way and protectors of the moral majority. Thus began a long and bitter culture war for the soul of America. Among the stoutest of the Christian soldiers was the… Tue, 01 Sep 2015 03:28:47 EDT Christine Wicker 87ce8dad-2ce5-4689-9d66-807339840ff0 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/21/immigrant-bashing-indifference-and-evangelical-vote Two prominent evangelicals penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week, asserting that “candidates who actually have a shot at winning the presidency should understand: Immigrant-bashing offends not only Hispanic people, but also their Anglo, African-American and Asian-American… Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:12:25 EDT Sarah Posner de6bbabc-f9b1-4927-a116-cca5eebaef5d https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/05/transitions-caitlyn-jenner-gender-identity-and-christians-behaving-badly-again Emma Green has a solid piece at The Atlantic detailing religious reaction to Caitlyn Jenner’s appearance in Vanity Fair. It’s mostly what you’d expect: one conservative Christian blogger called Jenner “sick and delusional,” and Roman Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of… Fri, 05 Jun 2015 12:20:38 EDT Daniel Schultz b7a944c5-2bc0-4e25-b4c0-2c68973c8d1b https://religiondispatches.org/2015/04/08/jews-violate-their-own-beliefs-conservative-christians-say A group of interdenominational conservative Christian clergy (plus professor) quietly released a statement on Passover/Good Friday titled, “Now Is the Time to Talk About Religious Liberty.” Now? Really? There’s no timestamp, but I’m tempted to believe it was posted at… Wed, 08 Apr 2015 06:01:41 EDT Evan Derkacz 662357f6-15dc-4eff-9b9a-6e5202ce745e https://religiondispatches.org/2015/03/09/evangelicals-looking-walker-do-nothing-2016-election When speaking to religious audiences, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker likes to remind people that he goes to church and knows his Bible. These reminders frequently come as Walker seeks to distinguish himself from political opponents in Wisconsin—the ones, he claims… Mon, 09 Mar 2015 03:33:26 EDT Sarah Posner 6e34d549-07bf-4cec-8e9e-ecaab7e8e33e https://religiondispatches.org/2014/12/04/wake-eric-garner-case-southern-baptist-leader-rips-racism-church After the failure yesterday of a grand jury to indict the New York police officer who was videotaped choking Eric Garner to death, Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, launched into a denunciation… Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:46:52 EST Sarah Posner caaeee44-ec2b-4b74-aa28-8362ba9f2c49 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/11/20/pope-christian-conservatives-team-promote-patriarchy The Vatican held an interfaith conference this week on the promotion of the “traditional”—that is, non-LGBT or single-headed—family organized around the concept of “complementarity.” Complementarity is one of those obscure theological concepts that nevertheless casts a long shadow over modern… Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:24:27 EST Patricia Miller 30a4d983-05af-4877-8110-9e52d118937a https://religiondispatches.org/2014/11/07/vatican-enlists-allies-against-gay-marriage-iranian-gays-pushed-change-gender-and-more New Vatican Confab on ‘Complementarity’ in Marriage Before the dust had settled from the Catholic bishops’ synod on the family, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced that it will be hosting an interfaith colloquium this month on… Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:50:34 EST Peter Montgomery bb323a3e-7056-4ef5-a59b-ea492d981c47 https://religiondispatches.org/2014/11/03/lgbt-christians-respond-southern-baptists-call-kindness-understanding Last week’s Southern Baptist Convention conference on “ The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage” presented a somewhat untidy hodgepodge of mixed messages as it vacillated between its stated themes of conviction and kindness. Although Southern Baptists’ preeminent theologian… Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:35:49 EST Mike Greer bdc3fcaa-a04c-4fb5-8189-fe9d9caa97be