he's served as pastor for a number of southern baptist churches, most recently preaching pastor at high baptist church from 2008 to 2012. he earned his master of divinity agree from new orleans seminary and ph.d. from the southern baptist theological seminary. please join me in welcoming back to preston russell moore. [applause] russell: thank you, it's good to be with you. there's no one in america that i esteem and admire more than professor george and fewer institutions that i admire so much as the witherspoon institute and james madison program so it's a great honor to be with you today. after a church service that i was speaking at one day a year or two ago i was approached by a man who had before his conversion made his living as a roadside psychic. and he still had a conscience that was weighing somewhat heavily because he had milked so many people out of so much money over the years, and he was telling me about how he did it. he said that there was a secret to keeping clients. and it was easy. he said one needed to consistently predict either really good news or absolute catastr

i really appreciate you as leading southern baptists. unfortunately we discuss religious liberty i didn't see that at least at the education level. it seemed like schools like southern seminary, southwestern and schools like cedarville college that there has been a repression of first amendment where students don't have free speech in many of these schools. there is no free press in a southern baptist school and no deviation. can you address, do you believe that at a southern baptist seminary should students have freedom of speech? >> i have never seen a southern baptist school repressing freedom of speech or freedom of the press. obviously religious liberty means that voluntary institutions and voluntary associations have the right to confessionally define the terms of their membership. so i would certainly not believe that i have the religious liberty to demand that pope francis ordain me to catholic priesthood when i do not meet the qualifications for catholic priesthood. so i think religious liberty is emphasized for everyone. >> que

unfortunately we discuss i really did rty, not see that in the southern baptist convention, at least at level.cation it seemed like like southern seminary, southwestern in schools like citadel college an oppression en of the first amendment where students don't have free speech schools, like e there's no free press in a southern baptist school, there's deviation from a guy like page patterson. address, or do you believe that a southern baptist eminary, should students have freedom of speech and is that being practiced as a southern convention? >> i have never seen a southern blood pressure tift school oppressing freedom of the speech or press. obviously religious liberty means though that voluntary nstitutions and voluntary associations have the right to onfessionally confined the terms of their membership. so i would certainly not believe i have the religious liberty to demand that pope ordain me to catholic priesthood when i do not meet the qualifications for catholic priesthood. ut but i think religious liberty is emphasized for everyone. yes? >> is this on? cool. lecture you made

earlier this year, russell moore, the president of the southern baptist convention, ethics and religious commission spoke about evangelicals and american culture. he gave those comments at princeton university. this is an hour and a half. >> what a pleasure and honor it is to introduce my beloved friend, russell moore, as this year's carol g simon lecturer. dr. moore is the eighth >> that comes from your allies as well, we hear from whalen, no one has been more dedicated to enterprise of building a supreme court that's been your goal. goal first and foremost has always within to find people to serve on the court who in the constitution as written and that's really ultimately what drives the moment.ative legal you want judges on the court who understand that the best way to preserve freedom and dignity and this country t in is to have people who will interpret the constitution as t's written and not play politics when they are judges. >> are you confident that anyone the president nominates tomorrow confirmed before the midterms, that the democrats up theot be able to hold nomination? >>

it was very southern baptist. i was raised southern baptist. >> seth: no mtv in the town? >> no. this. they're gonna -- but the college in the town it was, like, the cable company didn't carry it. >> seth: oh, wow. >> so, there was no mtv. >> seth: and yet you -- you grew up to be a rock musician. where did you get your love of music, if you were sort of limited by -- >> my parents. >> seth: okay. >> my family. i grew up in -- i have a really cool family. and they just listened to a lot of music. music was always around. like, even my sister now just walks around with a beats pill. >> seth: uh-huh. [ light laughter ] >> she just, like, walks around with it. >> seth: see, i have -- >> headphones, okay. >> seth: i have people in my family -- my father-in-law walks around a lot with his laptop open, playing music. and i -- >> that's cool. that's my style. >> seth: see, i don't love it. [ light laughter ] >> i -- i have a -- i think it's cool. >> seth: i think it's cool for him. >> because then -- guess what you could do? shoot off an email. you can watch something on netflix. becaus

interfaith councils of the bay area as well as the vo ad, salvation army, and the red cross, and the southern baptist conference for a debrief on the faith community's response to the north bay fires. we talked about everything from chaplaincy training and sensitivity to how food is moved around in shelters. and also the treatment of the undocumented in the north bay. this was sort of unprecedented where we're all in one room, and i am hoping those folk, we can sustain that because i realized how interdependent we are regionally on our councils, and i want to make that resource available to the department. >> thank you very much, michael. i thought it was a fantastic meeting. and we all know that can't rely just on government for response. we will be relying very heavily on our voads and nonprofit partner, and of course, the faith-based community. thank you. other announcements? elaine? >> our seawall project was given a new start from the federal government. [applause] i wanted to thank you, jim, and the chamber for hosting us twice for federal lobbying efforts. it really paid off. >> i will put it

what they said about the d southern baptist preacher he had a voice like god but only deeper and william augustus jones. wondering who will be the big shot. great poetry if nothing else the rhetorical command of frederick a. when you hear carolyn knight or some of thees great preachers you hear that command frederick but also what convinced people their lives are worth something that convinces them of the integrity of their spiritual existence in light of the belief that god walks with them and suffering will nothe exhaust their existence so mlk was part of that resistance also as a marginal figure because of his political activity and jay jackson who was head of the national baptist convention was a conservative leader in preacher. he doesn't want all of that civil right heresy this tension with the blacks did not get it start so martin luther king jr. and his cohort had to leave the convention basically forced out to start the baptist convention millions of members about two or three in the progressive convention but even there, all black people benefited from the civil rights movement

southern baptist and liberty commission on evangelicals in american culture.the former head of the fbi's chief of counterespionage section, peter struck goes before congress on thursday to explain fbi and doj actions surrounding the 2015 presidential election and the clinton email investigation. he met the fbi's investigation into then secretary of state ellery clinton's use of the private email server. coverage starts at 10 am eastern here on cspan 3, online , and listen with the free c- span radio app. >>> cspan washington journal live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, former advisor ben rhodes discusses significant political and policy decisions of the obama administration. then, marjorie denton bowser talk to the president trumps supreme court nominee and agenda. be sure to watch the washington journal live at 7 am eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. >>> what would work look like in the future? the manhattan institute hosted a panel of economists, authors, and journalists on jobs, training, and wages

baptist church versus the ku klux klan, a $37 million judgment for its role in the burning of a southern baptist church. takes a role in controversial activity, often stirring up controversy himself, but always newsworthy. and to my immediate left, again, not politically, but we know each other well. >> that's for sure. >> fellow members of the mclaughlin group. we're coming back. in fact, what's amazing, this is appropriate this morning, ladies and gentlemen, and so many people since the passing of don mclaughlin have e-mailed us, people from the left and the right, saying they really miss how we handle balance and fairness on our program, which my grandma always called the shouting show. the show didn't change, society did. now this course is so rare that it's hard to get people in the same room. he's the current editor in chief of "the weekly standard," author of three books, former senior writer for "the national journal." he has appeared in the "times salon." like myself, a fellow pundit here in the great beltway, and thank you so much for being with us, steve. thank you for your patience.

moore is the eighth president of the ethics and religious liberty commission of the southern baptist convention which is the moral and public policy agency of the nation's largest protestant

i mean, she was a southern baptist all the way through. very straight arrow. straighter than straight. and she had some interesting stories to tell about the chairman. she had volunteered to testify and went over to ask to testify. that's how passionate she felt about it. and they said no. no thank you. so we got really rather riled about that. and one morning, we went in and did one-minute speeches, you know. and a wonderful young woman who did my press then, andrea camp, i said, what can we do? she said, go outside, walk over to the senate this way, we knew they were having their lunch, but do it outside to is media sees you, like it's a march, if you do it inside it won't be as -- go up the stair and go in there and knock on the door. so we did. well, all the democratic senators were meeting for lunch as they do every week. knocked on the door. and to our shock, the majority leader answered the door and said, we don't let strangers in here. and we kind of said, strangers? we thought of ourselves as your colleagues, excuse us. and then we kind of said, see a

she was a southern baptist all the way through, very straight arrowed, straighter than straight. she had interesting stories to tell about the chairman. she had volunteered to testify and asked to testify. they said no. no thank you. so we got really upset and one morning we did one minute speeches, and a wonderful young woman who did my press i said what can we do and she said go outside and walk to the senate this way. she said do it outside so the media sees you march. go up the stairs and go in there and knock on the door. so we did. well all of the democratic senators were meeting for lunch as they do every week. i knocked on the door. the majority leader answered the door and said we do not left strangers in here. -- let strangers in here and we said strangers? we thought of ourselves as your colleagues, excuse us and then we said see all of these people in the hall behind us. they are press. this is not going to be pretty. what are you going to do? he said come back at a certain time and i will talk to you. let me find out what is going on. okay. so we are trying to be fai

. >> what -- you know, in the southern baptist church, meachum will tell you we sing what a friend weesus. i can tell you looking at that chart, militarily, i feel like singing a couple of bars of what a friend we have in nato. >> yes. the europeans, whose principal responsibility is to defend europe against russia, spend multiples of what russia spend on their defense as that chart shows. and so, sure, look, we all agree that europe had been doing not enough, but they are on a better path now. there's a subtle point -- >> we really need to thank bob gates for that because it started in 2011 when bob gates went over and said you've got to start spending more on your military budgets. >> yes. so the point is, it really has nothing to do with trump. it went on all through the obama years and now it's continuing, as well. one other subtle point to be made is that it's a little harder for germany to increase their spending. one is their history, the whole notion, and the fact that given the size of germany's economy, if they went to 2%, they would have by far the largest military force in

my best example is the first book i wrote in my dissertation, and a small southern community and a deacon in a baptist church marries on the courthouse steps, and in fact, is a former slave. i think those differences matter. and we are wrong to separate them out and not see the construction was making a difference in the lives of people at the local level. there were ways when a judge decided disputes, it could often be an african-american deciding those disputes. we forget about that. those things were making a difference in people's lies. -- lives. >> if i could add one thing, the governor of new orleans, during reconstruction, during the civil -- when the union union was in charge, they passed minimum wage loss, progressive labor laws. -- they passed minimum wage laws, progressive labor laws. >> we could go more for hours, except we would all be kicked out. instead, i want to thank again the people from the capital historical society. the press, john cannon who continues to help edit the books. my panelists, and most of all, the audience. you have been wonderful. thank you for a fabulous day. [appl

southern baptist and liberty commission on evangelicals in american culture. the former head of the fbi's chief of counterespionage section, peter struck goes before congress on thursday to explain fbi and doj actions surrounding the 2015 presidential election and the clinton email investigation. he met the fbi's investigation into then secretary of state ellery clinton's use of the private email server. coverage starts at 10 am eastern here on cspan 3, online , and listen with the free c- span radio app. >>> cspan washington journal live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, former advisor ben rhodes discusses significant political and policy decisions of the obama administration. then, marjorie denton bowser talk to the president trumps supreme court nominee and agenda. be sure to watch the washington journal live at 7 am eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. >>> what would work look like in the future? the manhattan institute hosted a panel of economists, authors, and journalists on jobs, training, and wage