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Finally<\/a>. \u00a0I went to school with Russ. \u00a0I\u2019d lie if I said I knew him well since he ran in different circles than I did. \u00a0He always seemed a decent enough fellow. Our big crossing came during a colloquium. \u00a0I\u00a0wrote a paper suggesting that the tendency of jockeying Scripture around to support this or that political or cultural movement is, in fact, par for the course when it comes to Protestant biblical exegesis in general. \u00a0Needless to say, Russ disagreed. \u00a0He responded with a resounding Nein!, echoing Barth\u2019s famous rebuke of Brunner\u2019s theology. \u00a0Heh. \u00a0I guess I didn\u2019t listen since\u00a0I eventually became Catholic.<\/p>\n

Other than that, I only knew him as part of the Mohler revolution that was all about returning Baptists to their Calvinist roots and rolling back some of the ecumenism that Baptists had been forging with other traditions, like Catholics. \u00a0Moore had recently changed to Calvinism and was emerging as Dr. Mohler\u2019s right hand man among the student body. \u00a0 When I went into actual ministry, I remember Russ writing about gathering together a coalition in light of the new millennium, in which conservatives of different traditions could agree to disagree for the greater purpose of fighting those culture wars.<\/p>\n

I lost track of him after I became Catholic, but did hear a few years ago that he was beginning to pull away from the whole religious right movement, and was starting\u00a0to criticize some of the more extreme and, quite frankly, goofy concerns and theories that were being floated. \u00a0He also was bemoaning the growing tendency of the religious right to\u00a0follow, rather than inform, the rest of the conservative movement.<\/p>\n

This year, when he publicly denounced the term Evangelical, I could only say it was about time. \u00a0Back in the day, during the joyful years of the Clinton administration, the term Evangelical had become a non-negotiable. \u00a0Claim Jesus all you want, call yourself a Christian if you insist, but if you didn\u2019t claim Evangelical, and by that we mean conservative Evangelical, then there was the door. \u00a0Trust me, my posterior was hit by that door more than once. \u00a0Having been schooled by Dr. Bob Long and Dr. David Gushee, however, I developed a quick skepticism about a faith movement too closely aligned with a political party.<\/p>\n

Exactly where Russ stood on such issues back then\u00a0I don\u2019t know. \u00a0I just know he\u2019s finally becoming known for echoing what so many of us saw back in the 90s, that the conservative Christian movement was becoming far too political, and it was ignoring entire swaths of Christian morality and Christian witness for political expediency. \u00a0He is reflecting the fear we had that religious faith would be reduced to a political party, as politics swiftly poured in to become the religion faith of our secularized society. Hopefully Russ won\u2019t go the way of so many who have seen the problems with the religious right, and begin throwing the baby out with the bathwater. \u00a0Based on this piece, it doesn\u2019t look like it. \u00a0We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"