He was a top church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis
People pray during a “Evangelicals for Trump” campaign event in 2020.
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People pray during a “Evangelicals for Trump” campaign event in 2020.
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He criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention’s response to a sexual abuse crisis. Then he found himself on the outside.
Who is he? Russell Moore was one of the top officials in the Southern Baptist Convention.
- When Donald Trump came on the scene, Moore criticized him publicly and found himself ostracized by many other evangelical leaders who embraced the former president.
- Moore also criticized the Southern Baptist Convention’s response to a sexual abuse crisis, as well as what he viewed as an increased tolerance for white nationalism within the church.
- Suddenly, in 2021, Moore found himself resigning from his post and on the outside of a denomination that had, up until that point, defined his life.
What’s the big deal? According to Moore, Christianity is in crisis in the United States today.
- Moore is now the editor-in-chief of the Christianity Today magazine and has written a new book, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call For Evangelical America, which is his attempt at finding a path forward for the religion he loves.
- Moore believes part of the problem is that “almost every part o
