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His firing comes at a time when Americans face a new surge of COVID-19 infections...

NRB spokesman Dan Darling fired after pro-vaccine statements on ‘Morning Joe’

Dan Darling
by: Bob Smietana August 27, 2021 (RNS) — The spokesman for a major evangelical nonprofit was fired for promoting vaccines on the MSNBC “Morning Joe” cable news show, Religion NewsRead More

McKenzie was the longtime pastor of Church of the Redeemer, an Anglican Church in North America congregation...

Thomas McKenzie, Nashville Anglican pastor, and eldest child killed in car crash

Rev. Thomas McKenzie
by: Bob Smietana August 23, 2021 (RNS) — The Rev. Thomas McKenzie, the rector of a prominent Anglican congregation in Nashville, Tennessee, and his eldest child, Charlie, were killed inRead More

“Sadly, many people are seeing people that believed themselves to be invulnerable getting sick or dying...”

Russell Moore: Sickness, death from COVID-19 likely reducing some vaccine hesitancy

Russell Moore
by: Adelle M. Banks August 10, 2021 (RNS) — Russell Moore, Southern Baptist ethicist-turned-public theologian, said that knowing people who became seriously ill or died from COVID-19 may be causingRead More

In his new role, Moore will help launch a Public Theology Project and will serve as its leader...

Russell Moore, Baptist ethicist and Trump critic, to leave ERLC for Christianity Today

Russell Moore
by: Bob Smietana NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 18, 2021 (RNS) — Russell Moore, the embattled Southern Baptist ethicist and “Never Trumper,” is resigning as president of his denomination’s Ethics and ReligiousRead More

The event was hosted by Wheaton College’s Humanitarian Disaster Institute.

Francis Collins urges evangelicals: ‘Love your neighbor,’ get COVID-19 vaccine

by: Adelle M. Banks April 27, 2021 (RNS) — Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health and an outspoken evangelical Christian, urged his fellow evangelicals, many ofRead More

PBS Newshour interviews SBC leader

Russell Moore: “A vaccination is not only something that’s acceptable for Christians”

Russell Moore
“A vaccination is not only something that’s acceptable for Christians. It’s something we ought to thank God that we have the technology for because it’s going to get us backRead More

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The Roman Road from Insurrection – Russell Moore

This week we watched an insurrection of domestic terrorists, incited and fomented by the President of the United States. Source: The Roman Road from Insurrection – Russell Moore

Above the symbol, the words: “Proud American Christian.”

For insurrectionists, a violent faith brewed from nationalism, conspiracies and Jesus

Storming of U.S. Capitol
by: Jack Jenkins WASHINGTON, Jan. 12, 2021 (RNS) — Moments before the assault on the U.S. Capitol began Wednesday (Jan. 6), a mass of Trump supporters gathered at a northwestRead More

From succinct prayers to calls for Trump to ask the rioters to halt, the faith leaders' statements mostly appealed for unity.

Faith leaders react to mob at Capitol with prayers, calls for end to violence

Trump marchers at the U.S. Capitol
by: RNS staff Jan. 6, 2021 (RNS) — As a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday (Jan. 6), American religious leaders reacted quicklyRead More

Southern Baptist leaders responded by calling for prayer for Biden and the country.

Biden projected as presidential winner; prayer urged

Joe Biden campaigns
by Tom Strode WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2020 (BP) — Democrat Joe Biden was projected as the winner of the closely contested 2020 presidential election by media outlets Saturday (Nov. 7),Read More