<p dir="ltr"><span><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/8729129/crossing-border-into-us 350x219.jpg" alt="crossing border bridge into U.S." class="ImageFloatRight"/>A prominent Southern Baptist pastor says it’s simply wrong to demonize Americans who believe their country needs to have strong border policies.</span></p>
Russell Moore has warned that while Christian life in contemporary Western culture has largely neglected the concepts of demons and demonic powers, spiritual warfare is a reality Christians face "all the time," both overtly and covertly.
Pastor Paula White-Cain speaks on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration ceremony of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Former President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White has slammed the American Christian establishment for mischaracterizing her and her ministry, singling out the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission head Russell Moore for branding her a “heretic.”
White, who called on angels from Africa to help deliver victory to Trump in his failed reelection bid last November, lamented the politicization of her life during a Jan. 17 sermon at her City of Destiny Church in Florida.
Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, speaks at the Caring Well conference in Grapevine, Texas, on Oct. 3, 2019. | Caring Well Conference/Screenshot
Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, called on the Church to take a stand against sexual abuse, warning there are “horrific and satanic” presences hiding within the Body of Christ eager to prey on vulnerable people.
On Thursday, Moore delivered a message titled The Church’s Response to Abuse is a Gospel Issue at the Caring Well conference in Grapevine, Texas, an event designed to help the Southern Baptist Convention s 47,000 churches learn how to prevent abuse and support survivors.
Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, speaks at the Caring Well conference in Grapevine, Texas, on Oct. 3, 2019. | Caring Well Conference
Russell Moore, the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, will be honored for his work in religious freedom activism.
The Religious Freedom Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, will honor Moore with their 2020 Defender of Religious Freedom Award at a virtual ceremony to be held on Nov. 21.
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and a former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will present the award.