Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is the public policy agency of the Southern Baptist Convention. It is headed by Richard Land and is headquartered in Nashville, TN with an office in Washington, DC.

The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. is the social and moral issues agency of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest non-catholic denomination in the United States, with over 16 million members in over 43,000 independent churches.

Formerly known as the Christian Life Commission, the agency has been led since 1988 by Dr. Richard Land, a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Oxford.The stated vision of the ERLC is an American society that affirms and practices Judeo-Christian values rooted in biblical authority.

The stated mission of the ERLC is to awaken, inform, energize, equip, and mobilize Christians to be the catalysts for the Biblically-based transformation of their families, churches, communities, and the nation.

The agency has many ministries to carry out its stated missions including:

• For Faith & Family, a weekly email newsletter, and other means.

• Ivotevalues.com, an effort to register Christians to vote, educate them to vote their values, and encourage them to pray for transformation in our...
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