Russell Moore

"Moore has demonstrated, time and again, the courage to express his convictions and the integrity to live by them. Sometimes this has meant contending for essential biblical and theological truths in the public square. Sometimes it has meant declaring truths to the church that challenge and convict us." - CToday

"I am seeing this in a lot of other institutions [other than SBC], is that the healthiest people are disengaging, because they are not the people who want to go through the nonsense that one has to go in these things." - Juicy Ecumenism

"The complaint was dismissed without prejudice Friday by U.S. District Court Judge William Campbell. That dismissal came a week before the deadline for Moore to file a response to Stone’s initial complaint" - RNS

"Lawyers for Georgia pastor Mike Stone filed a complaint Monday (Oct. 18) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee accusing former Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore of defamation, false light invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress." - RNS

"If you are part of, say, an offshoot of Christian Science that thinks any medical treatment is a lack of faith in God, you may have a legitimate religious liberty claim, showing what your religion teaches and how you cannot carry out your faith in such circumstances. That still would not allow you to walk unmasked and coughing through a Walmart, but it would be a good-faith question to address." - Moore

"In it, Moore directly and indirectly accuses various leaders of 'stonewall[ing]' calls to address sexual abuse in the SBC. It is the second letter written by Moore to become the public within the last week. An earlier letter, written in February 2020 and addressed to the executive committee of the ERLC’s board of trustees, outlined similar concerns." - BPNews

RNS: The letter. Also at RNS: Leaked Russell Moore letter blasts SBC conservatives, sheds light on his resignation.

"Russell Moore is leaving the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, ending an occasionally controversial eight-year tenure, to take a role with Christianity Today." - BPNews