Urging readers to “try to see where there are misunderstandings,” Moore said he had not “been clear” in what he was saying and not saying the past year. “s Christians, how should we move forward in this Christmas season and beyond?” “What does a family Christmas look like after a divisive election?
Introducing his Christmastime reflections, Moore asked two questions for context: “I am utterly stunned that Russell Moore is being paid by Southern Baptists to insult them,” Huckabee told NPR. Huckabee, a Southern Baptist pastor who also served as president of the Arkansas State Baptist Convention, was more abrupt about the harshness Moore directed at others in his own denomination. Mefferd told NPR Moore was off base to accuse evangelical Trump supporters of “selling out their principles.” Mike Huckabee and Christian radio broadcaster Janet Mefferd about Moore’s bitterness toward fellow Christians. The National Public Radio report added to this chorus the concerns voiced by former Arkansas Gov. “They do not believe it represents our church’s beliefs,” he said. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, said his congregation also is considering “the wisest expenditure of its dollars,” and emphasized his deacons are “very concerned about the direction of the ERLC.” Moreover, Harrell’s former church of 30 years is considering punitive action.īrad Whitt, who now leads Abilene Baptist, told the Wall Street Journal the congregation is weighing whether to withhold its funds from supporting the ERLC. He suggested the ERLC needs to change drastically or be eliminated, saying Moore should not continue to head the entity for Southern Baptists unless Moore starts to “simply represent the Southern Baptist people in Washington.” Harrell lamented Moore’s condescending attacks on “the Southern Baptist people” just because many of them did not agree with Moore.
Harrell, former chairman of the SBC Executive Committee in Nashville, and retired pastor of Abilene Baptist Church in the greater Augusta, Ga., area. These sentiments were echoed by William F. “Over the last month, there have been some pointed conversations in my denominational family about the election and the way forward, and some of them have been directed at me,” Moore wrote.įormer SBC president Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, told the Wall Street Journal his congregation is “considering making major changes in our support of the Southern Baptist Convention,” citing Moore’s “disrespectfulness toward Southern Baptists and other evangelical leaders, past and present.”
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The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio published separate election post-mortem investigations into the 45-year-old Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, who has made himself a high-visibility figure during the presidential campaign with his inflammatory social media posts and much-publicized editorials against evangelicals printed by the liberal New York Times and Washington Post.įor his part, Moore posted an online article - the same day the Wall Street Journal article was released - titled “Election Year Thoughts at Christmastime,” giving his advice about how to “move forward” after a “divisive election.” Moreover, he appeared, at least at one point, to recast the imbroglio among Southern Baptists as a situation of others taking aim at him. In a surprise development, two prominent national news outlets have investigated the turmoil created by a Southern Baptist leader because of his relentless attacks against fellow evangelicals who chose to support Donald Trump during the 2016 U.S.
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