and russell moore sort of threw up his hands and said, what are we doing here?this is terrible for the witness of christ in our culture. and ultimately, that sort of lit the fuse, and several years later, because of a whole host of things, including his advocacy for investigating sexual misconduct in the church and arguing more forcefully for real efforts at racial reconciliation in the church, russell moore found himself on the outs and really found himself, as he described it to me, as a victim of sort of a sustained campaign of psychological warfare, people in the church really doing and saying things to him that you wouldn't see in the ugliest corners of our society, much less inside the church. and yet, here he was. so, russell moore left the southern baptist convention, and now he is sort of out on his own, spending a lot of time meeting with pastors around the country, trying to counsel them on how to navigate this incredibly tumultuous period in the church and what russell has told me over the past year, as he's been doing his thing, and i have been doin