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Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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People join hands in a moment of silence as thousands of marchers meet in the middle of Charleston's main bridge in a show of unity after nine black church parishioners were gunned down during a Bible study, Sunday, June 21, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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People raise their hands as a show of unity as thousands of marchers meet in the middle of Charleston's main bridge after nine black church parishioners were gunned down during a Bible study, Sunday, June 21, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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National Edition News cover for June 22, 2015 - Social-issues voters doubt viability of Bush: Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush told the Faith and Freedom “Road to Majority” conference the story of how he converted to Catholicism and said his religion guided him as Florida governor, but social-issues voters questioned his conservatism. (Associated Press)
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Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush told the Faith and Freedom "Road to Majority" conference the story of how he converted to Catholicism and said his religion guided him as Florida governor, but social-issues voters questioned his conservatism. (Associated Press)
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Police in Richmond, Virginia, took a white man into custody Thursday night after witnesses say he was threatening black church members and shouting racial slurs. (WTVR)
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National Edition Opinion cover for June 19, 2015 - When religion attempts science (Illustration by Kevin Kreneck/Tribune Content Agency)
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Women pray together at a makeshift memorial on the sidewalk in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine people, including the church's pastor, were gunned down at a prayer meeting Wednesday evening. (Associated Press)
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Dylann Storm Roof is a suspect in the shooting of several people at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo)
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Pope Francis wrote an encyclical this week saying that the use of fossil fuels is leading to an increase in worldwide global warming, which came as welcome news for President Obama and the environmental movement, however, Catholic politicians, especially Democrats, are left to walk a tight line on how to reconcile the pontiff's proclamations with voters. (associated press)
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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said the United States should not give money to countries that persecute Christians. (Associated Press)
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The U.S. Army plans on replacing its M9 with the Modular Handgun System by 2018. (Image: U.S. Army) ** FILE **
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The Road to Majority — an event for 2,000 faith-based activists and A-list Republicans — is now underway in the nation's capital. (Faith & Freedom Coalition)
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The two main armed groups operating in the landlocked, resource-rich country — the Muslim Seleka and largely Christian and animist Anti-Balaka — are responsible for violent atrocities that have shocked the international community, including extreme violence, conscripting child soldiers and massive property seizures. (Associated Press)
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In this Tuesday Jan. 26, 1999 file picture, Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez of Chile, holds the book "De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam" (Of Exorcisms and Supplications), the Vatican's new guidelines on exorcism, presented during a news conference at the Vatican. The 1999 guidelines, written in Latin, update the last set written in 1614. After four centuries, The Vatican's guidelines for driving out the devil includes a caveat not to mistake psychiatric illness for diabolic possession. America's Roman Catholic bishops say there's a shortage of exorcists in the country. To fix the problem, they're holding a conference Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 and Saturday in Baltimore on how to perform the rite. (AP Photo/Marco Ravagli)
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Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to Frederic Hunt, minister of the First Calvary Baptist Church, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at The Main Street Bakery, May 27, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro) (credit)
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Incoming Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker invites donations as a Salvation Army holiday bell ringer Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in the Downtown Crossing area of Boston. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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American Renewal Project founder David Lane said he doesn't want to force pastors into politics but is looking for those who feel a calling. "If they are not called to run, we don't want them to run," he said. "We want people to discern whether God is calling them to run. If that happens, we are going to flood grass-roots-level conservatives into the public square."
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Illustration on the push for transparency concerning IRS spending by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Auxiliary Bishop Andrew Cozzens, right, and Tom Halden, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis, walk back to the chancery after announcing the resignations of Archbishop John Nienstedt and Auxiliary Bishop Lee Anthony Piche during a news conference at the Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis Chancery in St. Paul Minn., Monday, June 15, 2015. In the last two years, Nienstedt was besieged by a clergy sex-abuse scandal that included numerous lawsuits from victims and led to bankruptcy. Then earlier this month, the archdiocese was criminally charged with failing to protect children. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)
