title: Russell D. Moore
Southern Baptist Convention
Church of God in Christ
American Evangelical Christian Churches
Verna M. Linzey
Ethics &amp; Religious Liberty Commission
Evangelical Synod of North America
Presbyterian Church of Brazil
United Church of Canada
Donald G. Bloesch
sentences: Russell D. Moore is an American evangelical theologian, ethicist, and preacher.
 He is currently president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
 Moore previously served at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of six seminaries of the SBC, as dean of the School of Theology, senior vice president for academic administration, and as professor of Christian theology and ethics.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States.
 With more than 15 million members as of 2015 , it is the world's largest Baptist denomination, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States after the Catholic Church.
The Church Of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination with a predominantly African-American membership.
 The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States.
 The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in the U.S.
The American Evangelical Christian Churches is a denomination founded in 1944, with the aim of 'Security with Liberty', enabling orthodox Christian evangelical ministers the opportunity to minister without particular decrees about non-essential Christian doctrines.
 The denomination is unique in that it recognizes dual ordination status with most other mainline Christian denominations.
 The denomination is attracting members of 'Generation X' and 'Generation Y' Christians who seek professional ministerial status after having grown up in an 'nondenominational' or 'interdenominational' church culture.
 The AECC ordains both female and male ministers called by God for service in the world.
Verna May Linzey (May 17, 1919 – November 11, 2016) was an American Evangelical theologian and an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention and, before that, the General Council of the Assemblies of God and the author of numerous Bibles and books.
 She is the chief editor of the "New Tyndale Version", author of the introductions to the books of the Bible in the "Modern English Version" Bible (MEV), translator of the book of Proverbs for the MEV, and she is on the faculty Advisory Board at St. Elias Seminary and Graduate School, located in Hamilton, Virginia.
 In 2006, The Christian Writer’s Guild awarded her the "Best Non-Fiction of the Year" award for authoring "The Baptism with the Holy Spirit."
 In 2011, she received the "Leader of the Year" award at the 2011 Leadership Summit hosted by the Heritage Foundation.
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest non-Catholic Christian denomination in the United States, with over 16 million members in over 43,000 independent churches.
 As of June 1, 2013, the ERLC is headed by Russell D. Moore and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with additional offices in Washington, D.C. and Cyprus.
The Evangelical Synod of North America, before 1927 German Evangelical Synod of North America, in German (Deutsche) Evangelische Synode von Nord-Amerika, was a Protestant Christian denomination in the United States existing from the mid-19th century until its 1934 merger with the Reformed Church in the United States to form the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
 This church merged with the Congregational Christian Churches denomination in 1957 to create the United Church of Christ.
The Presbyterian Church of Brazil (Portuguese: "Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil", or "IPB") is an Evangelical Protestant Christian denomination in Brazil.
 Oldest of the Reformed family of Protestantism in Brazil.
 It is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country, having an estimate 1,011,300 members, 8,315 ordained ministers and 5,015 churches and 5,392 parishes.
 It is also the only Presbyterian denomination in Brazil present in all 26 States and the Federal District.
 It was founded by the American missionary Rev. Ashbel Green Simonton, who also oversaw the formal organization of the first congregation (Presbyterian Church of Rio de Janeiro) and the first Presbytery (Presbytery of Rio de Janeiro).
 Although the Presbyterian Church of Rio de Janeiro was only formally organized in January 1863, and the Brazilian church only left the jusrisdiction of the joint missions board of the American churches in 1888, when the Synod was formed, the denomination considers the date of Simonton's arrival in Brazil, August 12, 1859, as its foundation date.
The United Church of Canada (French: "Église unie du Canada" ) is a mainline Reformed denomination and the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada, and the largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Catholic Church.
 In 2011, Statistics Canada reported approximately 2 million people identifying as adherents.
 The United Church was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Protestant denominations with a total combined membership of about 600,000 members: the Methodist Church, Canada, the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, two-thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Association of Local Union Churches, a movement predominantly of the Canadian Prairie provinces.
 The Canadian Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church of Canada on 1 January 1968.
Donald G. Bloesch (May 3, 1928, Bremen, Indiana – August 24, 2010) was a noted American evangelical theologian.
 For more than 40 years, he published scholarly yet accessible works that generally defend traditional Protestant beliefs and practices while seeking to remain in the mainstream of modern Protestant theological thought.
 The ongoing publication of his "Christian Foundation Series", has brought him recognition as an important American theologian.

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 Russell D. Moore is an American evangelical theologian, ethicist, and preacher.
 He is currently president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
 Moore previously served at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of six seminaries of the SBC, as dean of the School of Theology, senior vice president for academic administration, and as professor of Christian theology and ethics. 

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 The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States.
 With more than 15 million members as of 2015 , it is the world's largest Baptist denomination, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States after the Catholic Church. 

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 The Church Of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination with a predominantly African-American membership.
 The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States.
 The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in the U.S. 

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 Verna May Linzey (May 17, 1919 – November 11, 2016) was an American Evangelical theologian and an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention and, before that, the General Council of the Assemblies of God and the author of numerous Bibles and books.
 She is the chief editor of the "New Tyndale Version", author of the introductions to the books of the Bible in the "Modern English Version" Bible (MEV), translator of the book of Proverbs for the MEV, and she is on the faculty Advisory Board at St. Elias Seminary and Graduate School, located in Hamilton, Virginia.
 In 2006, The Christian Writer’s Guild awarded her the "Best Non-Fiction of the Year" award for authoring "The Baptism with the Holy Spirit."
 In 2011, she received the "Leader of the Year" award at the 2011 Leadership Summit hosted by the Heritage Foundation. 

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 The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest non-Catholic Christian denomination in the United States, with over 16 million members in over 43,000 independent churches.
 As of June 1, 2013, the ERLC is headed by Russell D. Moore and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with additional offices in Washington, D.C. and Cyprus. 

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 The Evangelical Synod of North America, before 1927 German Evangelical Synod of North America, in German (Deutsche) Evangelische Synode von Nord-Amerika, was a Protestant Christian denomination in the United States existing from the mid-19th century until its 1934 merger with the Reformed Church in the United States to form the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
 This church merged with the Congregational Christian Churches denomination in 1957 to create the United Church of Christ. 

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 The Presbyterian Church of Brazil (Portuguese: "Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil", or "IPB") is an Evangelical Protestant Christian denomination in Brazil.
 Oldest of the Reformed family of Protestantism in Brazil.
 It is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the country, having an estimate 1,011,300 members, 8,315 ordained ministers and 5,015 churches and 5,392 parishes.
 It is also the only Presbyterian denomination in Brazil present in all 26 States and the Federal District.
 It was founded by the American missionary Rev. Ashbel Green Simonton, who also oversaw the formal organization of the first congregation (Presbyterian Church of Rio de Janeiro) and the first Presbytery (Presbytery of Rio de Janeiro).
 Although the Presbyterian Church of Rio de Janeiro was only formally organized in January 1863, and the Brazilian church only left the jusrisdiction of the joint missions board of the American churches in 1888, when the Synod was formed, the denomination considers the date of Simonton's arrival in Brazil, August 12, 1859, as its foundation date. 

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 The United Church of Canada (French: "Église unie du Canada" ) is a mainline Reformed denomination and the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada, and the largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Catholic Church.
 In 2011, Statistics Canada reported approximately 2 million people identifying as adherents.
 The United Church was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Protestant denominations with a total combined membership of about 600,000 members: the Methodist Church, Canada, the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, two-thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Association of Local Union Churches, a movement predominantly of the Canadian Prairie provinces.
 The Canadian Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church of Canada on 1 January 1968. 

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Answer: The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission