In a letter written more than a year before Russell Moore, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, resigned, Moore explained his troubles with the SBC’s leadership in bitterly frank terms. The root of the friction was the stands Moore had been taking on the SBC’s race and sexual abuse issues, which had raised hackles with a “small minority” that Moore does not name but can be identified as key conservatives and members of the denomination’s governing Executive Committee.