# Russell Moore **Summary.** Editor-in-Chief of *Christianity Today* since 2022; previously president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (2013-2021). Departed the SBC publicly over its handling of racial issues, abuse cases, and political alignment with Trumpism. Now functions as a leading voice for what's variously called "post-evangelical evangelical" Christianity — taking seriously the formation question of how to remain Christian when the institutional vehicle has lost moral credibility. ## Why he matters to this wiki - His conversation with [[Andrea Palpant Dilley]] in the [[2026-05-27-how-to-stay-christian-russell-moore-youtube|How to Stay Christian When Everything Seems Awful]] source provides one of the three poles of the three-traditions synthesis ([[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/Three Christian Traditions Name the Same Spiritual Hazard - Externalizing the Source of Meaning]]) — the mainline-evangelical counter-formation pole. - His public departure from the SBC and subsequent leadership of *Christianity Today* makes him a documented case study of evangelical-tradition rupture without progressive-tradition wholesale adoption — the "stay Christian" formulation rather than "leave evangelicalism for [progressive/mainline/none]." - His framework is useful for the wiki's analysis of deconstruction patterns: he models a particular kind of post-evangelical Christianity that doesn't follow the typical exodus → progressive-Christianity trajectory. - Relevant for [[Worship theology standards]] and [[Christian Nationalism]] threads — his public statements on both have been substantive. > [!question] > ~~A primary-source page on his book *Losing Our Religion* would deepen the grounding considerably.~~ — partially addressed 2026-05-28 at [[1. Projects/llm-wiki-theology/wiki/sources/2023-russell-moore-losing-our-religion|Losing Our Religion source page]]. Full Readwise ingest of the book itself still future-cycle work. ## Related - [[Andrea Palpant Dilley]] · [[Brian McLaren]] · [[Christianity Today]] - See also: [[2026-05-27-how-to-stay-christian-russell-moore-youtube|How to Stay Christian When Everything Seems Awful]]; [[3. Resources/Permanent Notes/Three Christian Traditions Name the Same Spiritual Hazard - Externalizing the Source of Meaning]]