Election campaign makes some evangelicals reject name

(RNS) — The head of the public policy arm of the nation's largest Protestant denomination caused a stir this election season when he said he no longer wanted to be called an "evangelical Christian." Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, sought to distance his own faith from the one surveyed at the polls or preached by televangelists promising riches as a reward for belief in God.

(RNS) — The head of the public policy arm of the nation's largest Protestant denomination caused a stir this election season when he said he no longer wanted to be called an "evangelical Christian." Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, sought to distance his own faith from the one surveyed at the polls or preached by televangelists promising riches as a reward for belief in God.…