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  • Religious liberty questions remain after court's ruling
    by Tom Strode, posted Tuesday, June 16, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP)—The U.S. Supreme Court left multiple questions regarding religious liberty unanswered but provided some hope in its landmark decision for gay and transgender rights, said advocates for the First Amendment freedom.

    In a 6-3 opinion Monday (June 15), the high court ruled the category "sex" in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act encompasses "sexual orientation" and "gender identity," thereby providing non-discrimination protections for homosexual and transgender employees. Religious liberty defenders said the justices' decision left employers with biblical convictions on sexuality open to legal challenges. Read More

  • Court's rejection of HHS conscience rule decried
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, November 07, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- A federal court's nullification Wednesday (Nov. 6) of a Trump administration rule protecting the conscience rights of health-care workers elicited disappointment from religious freedom and pro-life advocates.

    The court in New York City vacated the entire regulation issued in May by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), saying the federal entity exceeded its congressionally granted authority. HHS acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in publishing the rule, federal judge Paul Engelmayer wrote. Read More

  • ERLC Academy focus on ethical issues 'open & robust'
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, May 31, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore and others provided two days of training on ethical issues for church leaders, Bible teachers and seminary and college students during ERLC Academy, May 20-21 in Nashville.

    The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission sponsored its academy for a fifth consecutive year and followed it with a three-day doctoral seminar. Read More

  • Moore examines paradoxes in Scripture & ministry
    by SBTS Communications, posted Wednesday, March 06, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- The church's integrity, or internal stability, is maintained by understanding and articulating key paradoxes in the Bible, Russell Moore said in Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's Norton Lectures.

    While the word "integrity" often is used regarding moral character, it really represents the "holding together" of something, like a building or institution, Moore said. Read More

  • Russell Moore book on family receives top CT award
    by Art Toalston, posted Wednesday, December 12, 2018 (5 years ago)

    CAROL STREAM, Ill. (BP) -- Russell Moore's "The Storm-Tossed Family" has been named by Christianity Today as its 2019 Book of the Year, the second time in four years Moore has authored the publication's top honor.

    Moore's book -- its full title is "The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home" -- was published in September by the B&H trade books and Bible publishing division of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.

    Moore, 47, is president of the SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. He and his wife Maria have five sons ranging in age from 7 to 16.

    His book "Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel," also published by B&H, was CT's 2016 Book of the Year. Read More

  • Moore: Cross frees Christians to love their families
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, October 12, 2018 (5 years ago)

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    GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- The biblical understanding that Christians have been crucified with Christ liberates them to love their families genuinely, Russell Moore said Thursday (Oct. 11) at the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission's fifth annual national conference.

    Moore, the ERLC's president, delivered the opening address to about 950 people gathered for "The Cross-shaped Family," the entity's 2018 conference at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of ... Read More

  • Human dignity addressed by ERLC in Capitol Hill event
    by Tom Strode, posted Monday, October 08, 2018 (5 years ago)

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    WASHINGTON (BP) -- Human dignity, as a biblical doctrine, should shape how Christians view the unborn, elderly and refugees as well as religious liberty, sexual assault and civil discourse, Southern Baptist ethics leaders told a gathering on Capitol Hill.

    The expansiveness of human dignity was set forth Oct. 2 by staff members of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission in the final of three sessions this year of its annual ERLC Academy. Russell Moore, the ERLC's president, and Daniel Darling, the commission's vice president for communications, addressed questions for an audience consisting primarily ... Read More

  • Family 'prosperity gospel' addressed in Moore's book
    by Tom Strode, posted Monday, September 24, 2018 (5 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Russell Moore decided to add to the many books on the family after he realized many Christians have adopted a version of the prosperity gospel when it comes to such issues as marriage and parenting.

    The author of the new book "The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home" told Baptist Press he recognized a "common theme" in his conversations with people in different states of family crisis. In part, "many Christians have an implicit 'prosperity gospel' when it comes to the family," said Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

    "We falsely believe if we love Jesus and we follow the right steps that we will have nothing but peace and tranquility in family relationships," Moore said in a Sept. 19 interview with BP. "That misunderstands what the Bible teaches about the family as an arena of spiritual warfare." Read More

  • Evangelicalism needs to focus on cross, Moore says
    by Tom Strode, posted Wednesday, May 09, 2018 (6 years ago)

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    PRINCETON, N.J. (BP) -- American evangelical Christianity needs to be born again to an embrace of the cross of Christ, Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore said in a lecture on the Princeton University campus.

    The president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) told an April 17 audience in Princeton, N.J., "Any evangelicalism that is worthy to face the future must be cross-shaped, must call all people everywhere to repent and believe in Christ, must call all people everywhere to demonstrate love of God and neighbor in our various communities and callings, but most importantly, evangelicalism must ... Read More