Rachael DenHollander speaks to Russell Moore at the Caring Well conference in Dallas, Texas | ERLC Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled a âcrisis of sexual abuseâ in the denomination through methods such as intimidating whistleblowers into silence and exonerating churches with credible allegations of negligence of sexual abuse victims, according to Russell Moore, the former leader of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. In a May 31 letter to outgoing SBC President J.D. Greear, which comes in the wake of an earlier letter in which he exposed what he called âgutter levelâ racism in the denomination, Moore refers âspecially to the crisis of sexual abuse as it relates to the SBC Executive Committee.â