By J. Josh Smith, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Last week, just a few days after two black men were killed by white police and a day after five white officers were killed by a black man who admittedly targeted white police, President Obama stood in front of the NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland, and…
By Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post. Pro-life Evangelical leaders are hoping to build upon the success of the annual March for Life by hosting their first-ever pro-life conference in the nation’s capital. Scheduled to be held Jan. 21-22, the “Evangelicals for Life” event will be hosted by Focus on the Family and the Ethics &…
By Samuel Smith, Christian Post. Christian ethicist Russell Moore has said that congregations too afraid of being political to speak out against acts of immorality, like abortion, are similar to churches in the 1800s that remained silent on the issue of slavery. As the featured speaker at the Institute on Religion and Democracy’s fifth annual…
By Elizabeth Bristow, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention has partnered with Alliance Defending Freedom to create a legal guide for churches, schools and nonprofit organizations to use for their organizational structure in light of changes in the culture concerning marriage. The resource, titled, “Protecting Your…
By Tom Strode, Baptist Press WASHINGTON (BP) — The Southern Baptist Convention’s religious freedom entity has told the U.S. Supreme Court the time to rule on same-sex marriage has arrived. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) joined four other faith organizations representing tens of millions of Americans in a Sept. 4 brief urging the…
By Tom Strode WASHINGTON (BP) — The Southern Baptist Convention’s lead advocate for religious liberty has urged President Obama to name quickly an ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, and he has offered a nominee for the position. In a letter Tuesday (July 15), Russell D. Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC),…
By Elizabeth Bristow WASHINGTON, D.C., July 1, 2014—Russell D. Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, filed a letter June 30 with a group of diverse faith leaders urging the U.S. Congress to protect, support and maintain existing provisions and protections of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. RFRA was signed into…