Russell Moore

President of the ERLC of the Southern Baptist Convention

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Russell Moore is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. The ERLC is the moral and public policy entity of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

Notre Dame Cathedral and the Power of Place

The world watched aghast as Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris engulfed in flames. As we share our understandable sorrow, let's remember: cathedrals can...

Notre Dame Cathedral and the Power of Place

Does Theology Cause Sexual Abuse?

When the enemy is to blame, arguing often escalates. Let's consider how to address this issue as believers, together.

Does Theology Cause Sexual Abuse?

Southern Baptists and the Scandal of Church Sexual Abuse

When we downplay or cover over what has happened in the name of Jesus we are not “protecting” his reputation.

February 11, 2019

Southern Baptists and the Scandal of Church Sexual Abuse

What We’re Missing in the Ralph Northam Scandal

Abortion culture and racial injustice are not two separate impulses. They are one.

February 04, 2019

What We’re Missing in the Ralph Northam Scandal

When People Cheer Abortion

Who could cheer the potential to stop the beating hearts of children who are, in some cases, just weeks away from birth?

January 24, 2019

When People Cheer Abortion

Is There a Loneliness Epidemic?

The fact that the most “Christianized” places in this country are also among the loneliest should be alarming to us of just how far we have drifted...

December 17, 2018

Is There a Loneliness Epidemic?

Are 'Scary Ghost Stories' Right for Christmas?

For Christians, the scary tales shouldn’t really seem all that crazy in light of the Gospels’ accounts of the Incarnation.

December 11, 2018

Are 'Scary Ghost Stories' Right for Christmas?

How George H.W. Bush Changed My Life

My sons, Benjamin and Timothy. They are, for me, the best memorial to the life and work of President Bush that I will ever see.

December 06, 2018

How George H.W. Bush Changed My Life

My Favorite Books of 2018

As I line these volumes up for this project, I find that I learned a great deal about God’s providence over the year past.

December 05, 2018

My Favorite Books of 2018

Does God Believe in Elon Musk?

Why does it sometimes seem like brilliant inventor Elon Musk is having a nervous breakdown? Could it be because he knows a big, awful truth that...

November 30, 2018

Does God Believe in Elon Musk?

What You Need to Understand if You're Called to Adopt

If what’s behind your adoption or orphan ministry isn’t a crucified, eyes-open, war-fighting commitment, the end result could be a twice-orphaned...

November 15, 2018

What You Need to Understand if You're Called to Adopt

If You Hate Jews, You Hate Jesus

On the Jewish Sabbath this week, a white nationalist terrorist murdered eleven worshippers within Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, in what is...

October 29, 2018

If You Hate Jews, You Hate Jesus

What Eugene Peterson Taught Me about Self-Protection

As I reflect today on the death of the writer/pastor Eugene Peterson, I can’t help but think about many of the things he taught me. One of the most...

October 25, 2018

What Eugene Peterson Taught Me about Self-Protection

You Are Not Your Family Tree

You don't have to come from a good family, or even know who your parents were, to experience the Fatherhood of God.

October 03, 2018

You Are Not Your Family Tree

Does the Death Penalty Violate the Ten Commandments?

Pope Francis pronounced this week that the death penalty is “inadmissible,” changing officially the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching on capital...

August 03, 2018

Does the Death Penalty Violate the Ten Commandments?

Can Your Soul Survive Facebook and Twitter?

Church splits and Twitter wars aren’t really all that different. Joining a cult and spending time wondering what people think about you online are...

Can Your Soul Survive Facebook and Twitter?

Who Will Save Superman?

What we love about Superman is not his power so much as his vulnerability.

Who Will Save Superman?

Would a Syrian War be Just?

Some Christians would argue that no military action of any kind is ever warranted. While I am not a pacifist, I respect the view, and take it...

Would a Syrian War be Just?