CT Direct - Tuesday, September 08, 2015

 

Tuesday, September 08, 2015

 

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Russell Moore Wants to Keep Christianity Weird
The public-policy leader for the largest US Protestant denomination isn't worried over Christians' loss of power. He says it might just be the best thing to happen to them.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Moore didn't expect to see female bodybuilders tanning naked across the street on a hot June day. So the eighth president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, took to one of his pulpits: Twitter. "These people told me we ought to keep all the neighbor kids inside while they are naked out here. Y'all have never seen me this mad," tweeted Moore, a father to five boys... continue reading >>

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