If Russell Moore could, he would be back living on the Coast tomorrow.
"A soon as I'm finished with my responsibilities, we're home in an instant," said Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention who lives in Nashville. "About once a week, I try to think of a way to make it work -- to move back home and commute back and forth. As soon as I can figure out how to make it work, we'll be back on the beach."
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All his experiences have come into play as he advises Baptists on some of thorniest issues of the times: gay marriage, the rebel flag, the massacre at Charleston. He's a conservative, to be sure, but not conservative enough for some.
"Whether calling Jesus an 'illegal immigrant' in his push for immigration amnesty, his advocacy of environmentalist 'creation care,' his ecumenical worship with adherents of other religions like at the Becket Fund's 'multi-faith' gathering, or his ethical compromise to attend gay wedding celebrations but not the wedding itself, Moore clearly has more in common with Sojourner's Jim Wallis than his predecessor, Richard Land," the hard-line The Pulpit and the Pen website editorialized in December.
And Paul Blair criticized Moore in BarbWire, another far-right website, for Moore's acceptance of the rule of law.