AS REPORTED HERE AT TPOS IN MARCH 2023 THREE MAJOR VOICES OF THE PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT HAVE BEEN TARGETING EVANGELICALS POLITICS AND SEEKING TO MOVE THEM AWAY FROM TRUMP AND INTO THE HANDS OF THE LEFT.
NOW THOSE EFFORTS ARE FOCUSING ON CHRISTIAN POLITICAL “BIBLE STUDIES” FUNDED BY MOORE’S OLD PARTNERS AT NEW AGE FETZER INSTITUTE, ROCKEFELLER, TEMPLETON AND MORE.
Rev Thomas Littleton
1/28/2024
A recent First Things article points out MORE of the current activities of Curtis Chang and his “Redeeming Babel” political band wagon. Along with Russell Moore and David French Change is continuing to promote his “Towards a Better Christian Politics” which was launched in March 2023 at the Trinity Forum event BY the same title.
NOTE – Chang and these partners have also ridden the “Pandemic Political ” train including the VAX push… until it went out of fashion after reality set in on many Americans. Today Changs VAX link is removed and a dead link error remains in it’s place. BUT the political messaging coninues forward ramping up just in time for the 2024 election cycle.
(““In partnership with Redeeming Babel, The Trinity Forum invites you to join us for an Evening Conversation at the National Press Club on Tuesday, March 21st from 6:30 – 8:30 pm with Curtis, David, and Russell to explore the challenges faced by church leaders and to discuss how communities of faith can cultivate, articulate, and embody a deeply faithful pursuit of justice for the common good. “)
“REDEEMING BABEL INC. (RB) DEVELOPS THEOLOGICAL CONTENT TO GUIDE CHRISTIANS IN THEIR LIFE IN THE SECULAR WORLD. THE RANGE OF TOPICS COVERED BY RB CONTENT WILL BE VAST, BUT WILL GENERALLY CENTER AROUND THE INTERSECTION OF CHRISTIAN FAITH AND PUBLIC/SECULAR LIFE. OUR FOUNDATIONAL WORK IS A THEOLOGY OF INSTITUTIONS WHICH IS DESIGNED TO HELP CHRISTIANS SEE THE VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THE BROADER SECULAR WORLD, FROM GOVERNMENT TO CORPORATIONS TO LOCAL CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS, AS PART OF GOD’S CREATION AND PLAN FOR HOW PEOPLE ACT COLLECTIVELY AND COOPERATIVELY TO ACCOMPLISH GOOD THINGS IN THE WORLD”
NOTE: FROM MARCH 2023 ARTICLE LINKED BELOW.
Redeeming Babel, with these left leaning political pundits dressed up as theologians, continue their Third Way political push only now they have added AN EXPANDED POLITICAL CURRICULUM AND POLITICAL “BIBLE STUDY” titled “The After Party.
NOTE : IS IT AT ALL POSSIBLE THAT THESE THREE GUYS WHO CLAIM TO BE BIBLICALLY CENTERED BELIEVERS REALLYTHINK THAT FAR LEFT FUNDERS WANT TO HELP CHRISTIANS BETTER UNDERSTAND POLITICS IN AMERICA AND BE BETTER VOTERS?
IN A WORD- “UNLIKELY “…OR PERHAPS IN REALITY “NO WAY THESE EXPERIENCED PUNDITS THINK THAT COULD BE THE INTENTION OF THESE FUNDERS”.
The After Party
Redeeming Babel, Inc.
“Political tensions have already fractured many churches, and many local Christian leaders feel like they lack the resources to deal with the political complexities of the day. Even more so, in the Evangelical church, national voices are generally heeded on many political and social issues more than local leaders. The After Party provides pastors and small group leaders with the resources to transition the conversation away from the polarizing topics at the national stage to the local context of loving one’s neighbor. The After Party will influence conservative Evangelicals with a key Biblically-grounded message: the “how” of political engagement matters more to God than the “what” of policy outcomes. It will launch this message and strategy in Ohio, a battleground state with a politically divided Evangelical community. Project partners include the state’s largest Evangelical church, a representative of the typical small-midsize church, multiple Christian colleges, and other key local networks.”
“We need to radically recenter on Jesus.”
“We don’t have all the answers, but we know we have lost our way. As Christians, we must confront toxic polarization and heal our broken politics. As we rebuild, we have a perfect example. Jesus refused to be defined by the politics of his day, and he calls us to be salt and light for our world as well.”
“Our identity in Christ is far more important than any political party. But separating our Christian identity from our political one can be challenging. That’s what we’re here to explore together.”
“About Redeeming Babel”
“Curtis Chang founded Redeeming Babel in 2019 to address three underlying theological problems driving the chaos and confusion of our current world. These three problems damage Christians in their interior, institutional, and societal selves:”
- a mistaken spirituality of anxiety (interior)
- a missing theology of organizations (institutional)
- a misshapen approach to politics (societal)
“Since its inception, Redeeming Babel has woven insights at all three levels and guided Christian engagement with the broader world. For example, in 2021, we founded and spearheaded Christians and the Vaccine, the leading national effort to persuade vaccine hesitant evangelicals. Our efforts addressed the anxiety felt by millions stemming from a distrust in institutions and countered the toxic politicization of a public health solution.”
“Our theologically rich approach is accessible to all Christians through online courses, short videos, the Good Faith podcast (Curtis Chang with friends), and a blog. Our current initiative, The After Party: Towards Better Christian Politics, equips evangelicals to pursue a biblically faithful approach to politics that offers a hopeful alternative to the polarization currently besetting so many communities.”
REDEEMING BABEL LIST AMONG ITS PARTNERS”
THE TRINITY FORUM- (OS GUINNESS THINK TANK HAS BEEN SWERVING LEFT FOR YEARS AND MOORE IS AMONG ITS FELLOWS.)
CHRISTIANITY TODAY (WHERE MOORE IS EDITOR AFTER BEING CANNED BY ERLC)
THE CCCU -THE COUNCIL FOR CHRISTIAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES HAS REPEATEDLY TAKEN THE PROGRESSIVE STANCE ON EVERY SOCIAL ISSUE .
UNDIVIDED-(Activating communities for racial healing and justice.) SUMS IT UP
ONE AMERICA MOVEMENT-(partners with faith communities across religious, political, and racial divides to confront toxic polarization in our society.)
THE “New Pluralist” BIBLE STUDY FUNDING COMES FROM THE FAR LEFT INCLUDING NEW AGE POLITICAL THINK TANK “FETZER INSTITUTE”TEMPLETON/ ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS / EBAY FOUNDER DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUPPORTING ARM /OTHERS OF THE LEFT.
SEE FUNDING PARTNERS HERE:
“The funders who have joined forces to launch this collaborative have each supported work toward this vision.”
“We have distinct priorities and divergent ideological views, and we see our differences as an essential feature of a healthy democracy and effective philanthropy. We share a belief in the urgency of fostering new pluralism in America, and we are committed to embracing pluralist values and behaviors in our work with each other and with the field.”
FETZER INSTITUTE AND ITS PAST HISTORY WITH RUSSELL MOORE AND THE SBC/ERLC
NOTE- THIS IS FROM 10/20/2019
“The ERLC just released its “Civility Report ” called the “Faith and Healthy Democracy” in Sept 26th 2019 . The White Paper is by ERLC Fellow Paul Miller a professor of the Practice of International Affairs Georgetown University and a long time Intelligence Analyst working in international affairs, political theory, culture, and theology. Before coming to Georgetown Miller worked for Rand Corporation .”
“The Civility Report is based on polls and research conducted by Lifeway and its “interviewees ” reads like a who’S who from The Gospel Coalition and the usual suspects of Russell Moore “cultural and political engagement” ideologist . Guys like Michael Wear, Jonathan Leeman , Jemar Tisby , Bruce Ashford, Colon Hansen and others from TGC grace every page with the standard TGC political rhetoric .”
TEMPLETON IS ALREADY FUNDING INTERFAITH DIALOG AND MERGING FAITH AND SCIENCE TO WEAKEN BIBLICAL FIDELITY AMONG EVANGELICALS
TPOS website contains MANY research articles exposing the Templeton Foundation funding and its progressive and globalist agenda among evangelicals – like this example on the infiltration of Christian education with interfaith dialog from June 2022-
THE ROCKEFELLER CONNECTION–THE NEW PLURALIST FUNDING “THE AFTER PARTY” POLITICALLY FOCUSED “BIBLE STUDIES”.
“In May 2022, New Pluralists announced our first major investment – $10 million to support local leaders, networks, and community groups who are addressing divisive forces in their neighborhoods, towns, and counties. We wanted to learn how healing happens when it reflects the unique histories, cultures, and desires of diverse communities. .”
OMIDYAR /EBAY FOUNDER AND THE LEFT
“Empowering people around the world”
“Founded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar, The Omidyar Group is a diverse collection of companies, organizations and initiatives, each guided by its own approach, but all united by a common desire to catalyze social impact. Our approach is grounded in the Omidyars’ belief that we are all part of a global community, and that the impact of our individual choices reaches far beyond our own lives. When these choices are positive, we believe they foster a thriving world where people are free to act on their inherent capabilities, and are supported by institutions that are accountable, responsive, and just.”
CONCLUSION
WHAT KIND OF “THEOLOGiAN” would think that these funders are interested in helping the church to build bible studies? What kind of fool would not grasp that anything these funders touch would be impregnated with their globalist and progressive ideologies and infected with their new age beliefs and hatred for the Living God, THE BIBLE and the Gospel?
ANSWER? Considering Russell Moore -it would appear that this “Theologian ” who spent over 30 years in training and employed by the Southern Baptist Convention at the flagship SBC seminary “Southern Baptist Theological Seminary / SBTS and at its Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission as Southern Baptist head ethicist and lobbiest. Moore presents himself as a true believer.
Moore’s TGC bio-” Russell Moore (MDiv, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) public theologian at Christianity Today and director of Christianity Today’s Public Theology Project. He has written many books, including Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel (2015), The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home (2018), and The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear Without Losing Your Soul (2020). “
Lest we forget – we have Albert Mohler to thank for this kind of Theologian like Russell Moore who was educated, employed and been promoted by his mentor Dr. Albert Mohler for more than 30 years.
R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary presented the 2016 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award to Russell D. Moore at the seminary’s June 15 alumni luncheon during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.
“Russ Moore has already made history and there is much history still to be written. He has madeSouthern Seminary proud in so many different ways,” said Mohler, who also presented Moore a commemorative plaque. “It is high time that we make this presentation and celebrate Russ Moore as Alumnus of the Year of the institution very proud to claim him as our own.”
REPUBLISHED HERE IN FULL DR. R ALBERT MOHLER’S HIGH PRAISE OF HIS DISCIPLE IN 2013 AS MOORE ASCENDED THE PRESIDENTS SEAT AT THE ERLC…AN 8 YEAR DISASTER FOR SOUTHERN BAPTIST AND EVANGELICALS EVERYWHERE BEFORE MOORE WAS FINALLY RELELASED BY ERLC BOARD.
MARKED URGENT
The Man from Issachar—An Address at the Inauguration of Russell D. Moore
TAGS: DR. RUSSELL MOORE, ERLC, ETHICS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY COMMISSION, RUSSELL MOORE, SBC, SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
“THE MAN FROM ISSACHAR”
“An Address Delivered in the City of Washington, D.C. upon the Inauguration of Russell D. Moore as President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at Capitol Hill Baptist Church by R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Without a providential understanding of time and history, one is left with the affirmation that human affairs are often guided by a series of very happy coincidences. At just the right time, the right leader emerges to fill a crucial need. The intersection of an individual life and a demonstrable need meet in a moment and in a person. We celebrate just such an intersection today, but I am not able to describe it as a coincidence. I believe that the providence of God is today demonstrated in the intersection of a man and a moment—in the inauguration of Russell D. Moore as President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
First, I point to the character and giftedness of this man. I can remember the very first conversation I had with Russell Moore. In that first meeting, I caught a glimpse of his intelligence, his conviction, and his ambitions. I knew then that he was out to change the world, but that his first loyalty and constant horizon is not this world, but the world that is already but not yet—in other words, not the kingdoms of this world but the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ.
His intellect is first rate, as is his scholarship. He came as a Doctor of Philosophy student and transformed his doctoral dissertation into a manifesto for kingdom ministry and cultural engagement. His intelligence is energetic and his wit always on hand. To talk with Russ is to enter into a world of ideas undergirded by conviction and footnoted with readings.
He is not merely fascinated by ideas, he is a true public intellectual. He belongs to that class of thinkers who are not merely collectors of ideas but movers of minds. He is a master of communicating those ideas and he knows how to make truth come alive as a living force.
He is one of the most natural conversationalists I have ever encountered. He is like the Victorians who could enter any room and join the conversation and immediately add to it. He is a voracious reader who is a walking bibliography and a library on legs. He comes alive when a book or an idea or a problem or a personality comes to attention.
Amitai Etzioni has distinguished between two classes of public intellectuals: those who are generalists (who can speak about anything intelligently) and those who are disciplinary (who can speak with unique authority within a specific field). Russ combines the best of both. He can talk about almost anything; but he talks with the authority of one who knows of what he speaks.
Above all, Russell Moore is a Christian thinker. In this construction, “Christian” operates as a noun, not as an adjective. He does not merely think like a Christian, he thinks as a Christian. His personal commitment to Christ, to the total truthfulness and trustworthiness of the Word of God, and to the faith once for all delivered to the saints is clear and tested. He is a defender of the faith and a Christian intellectual who dearly and deeply loves the Christian faith.
Russell Moore is a Baptist by conviction and a Southern Baptist by passion. He is a member of the tribe who transcends tribalism. He is not a Baptist by accident. His commitment to the free church in a free state and to the elegant simplicity of Baptist ecclesiology is clear. He is a conversionist and a churchman. He is deeply committed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to the Great Commission. He knows the Southern Baptist Convention and he loves Southern Baptists with an eyes-open love. Thus, he can lead Southern Baptists. The late Carlyle Marney once said of Southern Baptists, “We may not be much but we are many.” Russ Moore is representative of a generation of leaders needed to make much of many.
He is, as no less than Augustine described the Christian teacher, one who is passionately committed to truth because he stakes his life on this truth and is himself transformed by this truth. He is, as our common mentor Carl F. H. Henry would define, a Christian thinker who is unreservedly committed to the totality of the comprehensive truth claim of the Christian world and life view.
All that, and he has a sense of humor. Russ Moore has an ear for irony and a readiness to be found joyful. Like G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, he knows that the deepest truths reveal the deepest joys, even as the reality of our human foibles reveals humor, whether we like it or not. Like Flannery O’Connor, he has an eye for the bare reality of truth, knowing, as Flannery would remind us, “Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
He is a leader who knows how to run a great enterprise. At a very early age he became Dean of the School of Theology at the mother seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, serving also as its Senior Vice President for Academic Administration. His reputation as a leader is well attested. He is a leader, an administrator, and an energetic catalyst for good. At the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission he comes to a work well established and much respected. He will build it and take it into the future.
He is also a faithful husband and a compassionate father. To know Russ is to know that he is the husband of Maria, and the father of Benjamin, Timothy, Samuel, Jonah, and Taylor. He finds joy in his home, and he has a joyful home in which to establish his life, both public and private. His dependence upon Maria is transparent, as is his joy in his sons.
He is a theologian of conviction, a leader of great ability, a teacher of righteousness, a preacher of rare ability and power, and a thinker who knows how and when and where to think out loud. He is an ethicist by reflex, by training, and by experience. He is a colleague with whom I have spent countless hours in joyful conversation and gone through times of trial and great challenge. I know what he is made of. I know where he comes from. I know who he is. I know his ambitions. He is not a self-made man, but a man well made for these times.
So we know the man, but what of the times? Twenty-five years ago, Carl Henry warned:
Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God’s will, to the power of his redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse to paganism. The savages are stirring again; you can hear them rumbling and rustling in the tempo of our times.[1]
The last quarter century since Henry’s statement of our crisis has brought no reversal of the trends he observed. To the contrary, the formerly Christian West is, in many sectors, so thoroughly secularized that it now has no consciousness of even being so. The Christian truth claim was reduced to a Christian memory, and now even that memory is gone. Our confidence in American exceptionalism is now fully shaken. If anything, America now seems to be secularizing in a delayed pattern, as compared to Europe, but perhaps even faster on its present course. As the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor reminds us, for millions of people in our civilization, and especially among the elites, belief in God is now, according to their own thinking, virtually impossible.
Many decades ago, the Quaker philosopher Elton Trueblood identified America as a “cut-flower civilization”—its flower cut off from the only source of its sustenance. Those roots have further receded from the cultural horizon.
We are now in the midst of a moral revolution marked by a comprehensive scope and velocity that are perhaps without precedent in human experience. We find ourselves looking at a moral world that is changing right before our eyes, and many Christians seem both bewildered and fearful—precisely because they are.
But the real crisis is not in the world, but in the church. More than sixty years ago, Carl Henry (whose 100th birthday we would mark this year), reminded the evangelicals of that day that the failure was ours before it was a failure in the world.
It was the failure of Fundamentalism to work out a positive message within its own framework, and its tendency instead to take further refuge in a despairing view of world history, that cut off the pertinence of evangelicalism to the modern global crisis. The really creative thought, even if done in a non-redemptive context, was now being done by non-evangelical spokesmen.[2]
Through this analysis of the problem, what Henry called The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism, he called evangelicals to a new mode of cultural and intellectual engagement.
“There is a rising tide of reaction in Fundamentalism today—a reaction born of uneasy conscience and determined no longer to becloud the challenge of the Gospel in modern times,” Henry wrote. “It is a reaction to which the best minds of evangelicalism are bending their effort these days, convinced that no synthesis is more relevant than modern frustration and biblical redemptionism.”[3]
In other words, he saw a generation coming, and he saw the likes of Russell Moore on the horizon. We dare not underestimate the challenges before us. We are living in a cut-flower civilization. There is a new paganism growing rapidly around us. There are threats to human life and human flourishing at every hand. We do see the ramparts of the family and the faith being both scaled and taken down. Religious liberty is under direct threat and we find ourselves in a moment of great civilizational peril. The culture of death is now institutionalized and made more ominous yet by technology. America has grown more polarized within and seems to be without a clear sense of itself within the international order. The most fundamental, essential, and pre-political institutions of human life and culture are now up for radical revision to the point of destruction. The scale of the crisis defies exaggeration.
And yet, these are precisely the conditions for optimal Christian witness. Under these conditions, the keenest edge of Christian thinking is soon evident and the operation of a genuinely Christian mind is transformative. The church is revealed to be what we know it to be, the kingdom community of the blood-bought, deployed in this world even as we belong truly to the world to come. This is no time for the weak-kneed or for weak thinking. These times call forth the deepest level and highest quality of Christian thinking, cultural engagement, Gospel-mindedness, strategic ambition, and churchly demonstration.
We do not choose our times, but this is a time for choosing. In the last era of the Roman Empire, Bishop Augustine chose to find his bearings for the City of Man within the greater love of the City of God. A time of crisis can bring us to surrender and lose heart, or it can produce The City of God or the Letter from Birmingham Jail.
I think Russ Moore’s legendary love of country music will serve him well. He knows how to speak of brokenness answered with hope and mercy. And he knows, as Johnny Cash would remind us, “there’s a man goin’ round, taking names.”
In 1 Chronicles 12:32, we read of the men of the tribe of Issachar, “who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.” We know Russell Moore as a man from Mississippi. I think he is really a man from Issachar. I think he has an understanding of the times, and he knows what God’s people ought to do.
The man and the moment have come together and, like you, I don’t for a moment believe it is a coincidence.”
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