question: What is the name of the American evangelical theologian, ethicist, and preacher that heads the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission?
answer: Russell D. Moore
context: Title: Land letter
  Passage: The Land letter was a letter sent to U.S. President George W. Bush by five evangelical Christian leaders on October 3, 2002, outlining their support for a just war pre-emptive invasion of Iraq.  As its foundation for support, the letter refers to the "criteria of just war theory as developed by Christian theologians in the late fourth and early fifth centuries A.D." The letter was written by Richard D. Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.  It was co-signed by:
  Title: Verna M. Linzey
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Russell D. Moore
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Donald G. Bloesch
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Stanley Hauerwas
  Passage: Stanley Hauerwas (born July 24, 1940) is an American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual.  Hauerwas was a longtime professor at Duke University, serving as the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law.  In the fall of 2014, he also assumed a chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen.  Before moving to Duke and the University of Aberdeen, Hauerwas taught at the University of Notre Dame.  Hauerwas is considered by many to be one of the world's most influential living theologians and was named "America's Best Theologian" by "Time Magazine" in 2001.  He was also the first American theologian to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at St. Andrew's in Scotland in over forty years.  His work is frequently read and debated by scholars in fields outside of religion or ethics, such as political philosophy, sociology, history, and literary theory.  Hauerwas has achieved notability outside of academia as a public intellectual, even appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
  Title: Trillia Newbell
  Passage: Trillia Newbell is the Director of Community Outreach for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.  She is the author of "United: Captured by God’s Vision for Diversity (2014)", "Fear and Faith: Finding the Peace Your Heart Craves (2015)", and her "Enjoy: Finding the Freedom to Delight Daily in God’s Good Gifts (2016)".  In addition to her writing and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Newbell gives speeches at churches, universities, conventions, and conferences.  She has written for newspapers, magazines, and online publications, including the Knoxville News Sentinel, The Gospel Coalition, Ligonier Ministries, Desiring God, Christianity Today, and the online blog of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.  Newbell is the founder and former managing editor of the Women of God Magazine, a defunct online publication.  She lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband and two children.
  Title: Stanley N. Gundry
  Passage: Stanley N. Gundry is an American evangelical theologian, seminary professor, publisher, and author.  He served as series editor for the Zondervan "Counterpoints" series, which present multiple views on a variety of theological topics.
  Title: Ethics &amp; Religious Liberty Commission
  Passage: 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.
  Title: Elias Smith
  Passage: Elias Smith (17 June 1769 – 29 June 1846) was a preacher, physician, journalist and clergyman.  Smith, along with the preacher Abner Jones, founded a group of Christian Churches in New England that eventually merged with other like-minded, regional groups to become the denomination known as the Christian Connexion.  Smith founded "The Herald of Gospel Liberty" in 1808, which he claimed (in his autobiography) to be "the world's first religious newspaper".  It was not the first in the world, but may have been the first in the U.S.  The "Herald" had two purposes: (1) reporting news of revivals and (2) promoting "religious liberty", by which he meant an end to tax supported churches.  (Several states had official tax supported churches at the time.)
  Title: State Marriage Defense Act
  Passage: The State Marriage Defense Act ( , in the 113th Congress, , in the 114th Congress) is a proposed law introduced by Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah that defines the terms "spouse" and "marriage" as used in federal laws to always follow the definition used in the particular state where the law is applied.  The bill is advocated by conservative and Christian Right organizations after "United States v. Windsor", including the National Organization for Marriage, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council and Heritage Action.
citations: Ethics &amp; Religious Liberty Commission Russell D. Moore