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b'Until recently, the Reverend\\xa0Russell Moore\\xa0held a leading position\\u2014president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission\\u2014in the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the country. He left the S.B.C. last year after criticizing the Church\\u2019s response to scandals around sexual abuse and ongoing racism, which Moore describes as a sin. Moore, who now serves as the editor of\\xa0Christianity Today, sits down with David Remnick to reflect on his connection with his faith, as well as the current state of Christianity in American politics. He has written that Christian nationalism is \\u201cliberation theology for white people,\\u201d and it is a danger to Christians\\u2014another form of secularization that makes religion an instrument. \\u201cJesus always refused to have his gospel used as a means to an end,\\u201d he tells Remnick. \\u201cPeople who settle for Christianity or any other religion as politics are really making a pitiful deal.\\u201d'