Johnnie Moore | Former U.S. Commissioner on International Religious Freedom (Trump & Biden Admins), Author, Businessperson, Religious Freedom and Human Rights Activist Sanctioned by the Communist Party of China

Johnnie Moore

Former U.S. Commissioner on International Religious Freedom (Trump & Biden Admins), Author, Businessperson, Religious Freedom and Human Rights Activist Sanctioned by the Communist Party of China

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Rev. Johnnie Moore has been called one of America's most influential evangelical leaders and he is especially known for his multi-faith work at the intersection of faith and foreign policy. His effective human rights and religious freedom advocacy prompted the Communist Part of China to sanction Moore in 2021. He is the author of seven books including Defying ISIS: Preserving Christianity in the Place of Its Birth and The Next Jihad: Stop the Christian Genocide in Africa. Moore is also a business person who founded one of America's leading, boutique public relations and communications consultancies, The KAIROS Company. The KAIROS Company was acquired by JDA Worldwide in April 2022 and Moore now serves as President of JDA Worldwide. He was twice appointed as a Commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, serving across the Trump and Biden administrations. In January 2018, Rev. Moore was deemed a "wunderkind" and an "evangelical gatekeeper" by the Washington Post in a major feature which said that "Moore's gift is being able to speak to different types of people, to exude warmth and collaborative energy during one of the most divisive periods in modern America." Newsmax Magazine has named him one of the "ten most influential religious leaders in America" (2020) and previously as "one of the twenty-five most influential evangelical leaders in America" (2017). In 2017 The Christian Post called him one of the "seven leaders to have the most impact," and in 2017 he became the first evangelical ever invited to deliver a sermon at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington, D.C. in view of the nuncio of Pope Francis to the United States and patriarchs of the catholic and orthodox churches of Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. Also, in 2017, he became the youngest ever recipient ever of the prestigious "medal of valor" by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights organization, at their annual Tribute Dinner, a star-studded affair in Beverly Hills chaired by more than two dozen leading lights of Hollywood. On the same evening the late Israeli icon Simon Peres was a posthumous recipient of the same honor. Rev. Moore's groundbreaking work on behalf of religious freedom in the middle east has received wide reaching acclaim. He was involved in the drafting of King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa of Bahrain's landmark Bahrain Declaration on Religious Freedom and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East. One month later, he helped lead the first ever evangelical delegation to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; on the same trip the delegation met with the present and previous Grand Muftis. In order to promote religious freedom, and as an advocate for religious minorities, he has held similar meetings with heads of state throughout the Islamic world including with the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates in 2018, twice with the President of Azerbaijan, and twice with the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2019 and 2018. In September 2018, Christianity Today Magazine noted that Moore was the most high profile evangelical ever invited to visit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a religious leader. Moore is a noted evangelical friend of the State of Israel and has met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of Prime Minister Naftalie Bennett's coalition as well as with various Palestinian government and civil society leaders. In 2020, Moore was credited with playing a significant role in the once-in-a-generation peace deal negotiated between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel. In 2019, he met with interim, transitional Prime Minister of the Sudan. He has met with ministers of Islamic Affairs, Justice and Education throughout the Islamic world to promote religious freedom and as an advocate for persecuted Christians and Jews. In September 2019 he collaborated with Muhammad Alissa of the Muslim World League to issue a joint statement calling for cooperation between Evangelicals and Muslims in order to protect places of worship around the world. He also worked with Indonesia's Nahdlatul Ulama leaders Mustofa Bisri and Yahya Staquf to issue the Nusantara Statement which acknowledges the "equal rights & dignity of all people" & condemns the political weaponization of Islam by Muslims or non-Muslim, alike. Moore speaks regularly in the national media and has written for many national news publications including CNN, the Religion News Service, The Washington Post, and Fox News. During the Obama Administration (in early 2014), Rev. Moore visited Capitol Hill to warn about the existential threat that a little-known terrorist group - later known as ISIS - posed to the ancient Christian communities of the Middle East. His advocacy was largely met by indifference and skepticism, but he continued to raise alarm. By the fall of 2014, ISIS had indeed embarked upon a reign of terror across Iraq and Syria decimating ancient Christian communities. It was then that he travelled to the region himself to meet with regional leaders including His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan and various religious and community leaders who had been displaced by ISIS in Jordan and in Iraq. He documented the experiences of thousands of displaced Christians, verified the accounts of children being sold on open slave markets, and that ancient places of worship had been desecrated and destroyed. His resulting book "Defying ISIS" was largely credited with awakening many in the west to the atrocities ISIS was committing against Christians, Yazidis and others in the middle east. Defying ISIS received the commendation of Newt Gingrich, who said "everyone should read this and demand their government stand up against barbarism," and it prompted the Reverend Canon Dr. Andrew White of Baghdad to deem Moore, "one of the world's leading spokespersons for Christians in the Middle East." Eventually, his advocacy for persecuted Christians played a role in raising over $25 million dollars in emergency assistance for various organizations to help those communities, including the evacuation and resettlement of approximately ten thousand of them, including threatened Christians and Yazidis. Moore was also intimately involved in the advocacy for genocide resolutions against ISIS passed unanimously in both houses of the United States Congress and in the British and European Parliaments. On the eve of Secretary of State John Kerry's statutorily required assessment of ISIS' activities, Moore appeared at a press conference at the National Press Club alleging that Secretary Kerry would go down in infamy as a genocide denier. The next day, under immense and bipartisan pressure, Sec. Kerry reversed his position and declared ISIS guilty of genocide. Moore has been an unrelenting advocate for human rights and religious freedom in Iran and a vocal critic of the Iranian regime and the JCPOA, including writing in a viral editorial urging Iranian Shia to "take back their religion" from Iran's Supreme Leader. Moore was intimately involved in the advocacy that led to the release of an 82-year-old prisoner of conscience in Pakistan, Abdul Shakoor. His efforts have also assisted in the release of religious prisoners in Yemen, and his economic, pressure efforts to help release Pastor Andrew Brunson from Turkey were reported globally, including in The Financial Times. Moore continues to invest a significant amount of his time and energy speaking out on behalf of human rights, promoting religious freedom, and combatting Christian persecution as well as anti-Semitism around the world. He serves on the Anti-Defamation League's Task Force for Minorities in the Middle East and is on the advisory council of the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement, alongside luminaries like Natan Sharansky and former senator Joseph Lieberman. To that end he has lectured at diverse institutions including Liberty University and Union Theological Seminary (also once the seminary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer). He is a fellow of the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling at Concordia University. He has spoken at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Services and the USC's Annenberg School of Journalism. He was a delegate to the middle east meeting of the World Economic Forum in 2019. In the 2016 presidential election, Moore first served as a spiritual advisor to Dr. Ben Carson before being tasked to help organize - and serve on - candidate Trump's influential Evangelical Advisory Board. In 2016, Moore noted that he would have also served as an informal advisor to democratic nominee Hillary Clinton had he been invited because "religious leaders are not responsible for whether their advice is taken but whether they had the opportunity to provide advice and chose not to." Previously, he held executive positions in higher education and in Hollywood, most recently as chief of staff for mega-producer Mark Burnett and previously as Senior Vice President of Liberty University, one of largest faith-based institutions of higher education in the world and the largest not-for-profit university in the United States.

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The Next Jihad

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The Next Jihad draws from the on-the-ground experience and personal testimonials of two of the world's leading advocates for religious freedom and human rights--one Jewish and one Christian--as they explain what's happening to Christians across Africa, why it matters, and what must be done now.

Although news of Christians being killed overseas hits major media outlets from time to time, the news quickly fades away while our fellow believers continue to suffer. Johnnie Moore, as he has done before, wants to awaken the church and American politicians to the daily horrors happening to Christians, focusing this time on Africa.

While the world has been fixated on jihadist threats in the Middle East, terrorists from Nigeria to Kenya have had free reign to massacre on a scale far beyond that of the terrorists in Iraq and Syria. Whole villages have been razed, mothers and children have been grotesquely killed, and an unabashed effort at ethnic cleansing has been embarked upon with unrelenting resolve. Their intention is to rid Africa of its Christians, either by forced conversion to Islam or by destruction and murder.

The Martyr's Oathby Johnnie Moore

The Martyr's Oath

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Be Inspired by Amazing Eyewitness Stories of Hope and Courage from the Persecuted Church
We are witnessing an astonishing escalation in Christian persecution like we have rarely seen since the first century. Some estimate that every five minutes, a Christian is martyred for his or her faith. Countries like Egypt have experienced more Christian persecution in the last five years than in the previous six hundred years combined. And who could have missed the atrocities of ISIS in Syria, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the continued persecution of Christians in North Korea?

Johnnie Moore, like many American Christians, didn't fully appreciate the extent of what was going on--until he witnessed the graduation of theology students in India. Unlike graduation ceremonies in America--where feel-good speeches made by visiting celebrities are common--this one featured a remarkable oath. It wasn't an oath to excel or succeed. It was an oath to be willing to die, if necessary, for the cause of Christ. This was no empty promise. This was a choice, choosing the eternal over the temporal.

Johnnie knew he was witnessing a raw, first-century Christianity that his comfortable American version had shielded him from. "For the first time, I really understand my faith," says Johnnie Moore. Now, he's on a mission to give this same experience to others. He and his team have crisscrossed the world, recorders in hand, gathering eyewitness accounts from dozens of people who survived persecution--and the stories of some who didn't.

Join Johnnie Moore on this compelling journey to the heart of the Christian faith.
Defying Isisby Johnnie Moore

Defying Isis

by Johnnie Moore

Has a Christian Holocaust Begun?

A Christian genocide at the hands of Islamic extremists is unfolding in the Middle East. Entire Christian populations have been eliminated, and the ultimate aim of ISIS is to eradicate the world of Christianity.

They are well on their way. Thousands of Christians arrive in refugee camps daily as tents can be seen for miles across the countryside of Jordan, N. Iraq and Lebanon.

Churches have been demolished, crosses burned and replaced with ISIS flags, homes destroyed, entire communities displaced, religious conversions forced, human torture enacted, children slaughtered, and all in plain sight.

In many cities every single Christian has been "taken care of" - displaced, murdered or forcibly converted, and just as the Nazis painted the Star of David on the homes of Jews, Jihadists have painted the Christian "N" (the first letter of the Arabic word for "Christian") on the homes of indigenous Christian communities to identify them before destroying them. They have proclaimed that they will not stop until Christianity is wiped off the earth from the land of its birth all the way to your own backyard. So what can be done to help these brave souls in the crossfire and protect a holy land?

With never before told stories of horror and of hope, Johnnie Moore unveils the threat of ISIS against worldwide Christianity, and what the world must do about it. Along the way, he introduces us to the courageous Christians who have stared down ISIS and lived to raise their crosses higher.

What Am I Supposed to Do with My Life?by Johnnie Moore

What Am I Supposed to Do with My Life?

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"Johnnie is an author whose writing has personally touched my life."

--Willie Robertson, CEO of Duck Commander

"What Am I Supposed to Do with My Life?"

It's a question we've all asked and if it isn't hard enough it seems that our desires for our life and God's are diametrically opposed, continually at odds.

But what if the question wasn't so difficult? What if finding God's will was easier than you thought, and what if living it brought you more joy than you ever imagined?

Highly acclaimed author and speaker, Johnnie Moore, helps you find the simple answer to one of life's most persistent and difficult questions, "What are you supposed to do with your life?"

Herein is the great secret of the will of God: The will of God is more about who you are than where you are or what you do. You don't find it, you become it.

So it's time to stop making excuses, and to start turning the particular dials of history that are yours to turn.

We need you.

God has given you a dream that could change the world.

It's your choice whether you will give it a whirl.

Dirty Godby Johnnie Moore

Dirty God

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In Dirty God: Jesus in the Trenches, Johnnie Moore draws on both Scripture and his extensive experience with other cultures and religions to show how the God of the Bible is unique in his willingness to be near us in all of our messiness. Moore outlines the central importance of the doctrine of grace while introducing readers to a humble and human Jesus who reaches out to us at our worst and pulls us up to our best.

Grace, Moore argues, is something that is both gotten and given, and the two-part structure of the book allows readers to explore both of these dynamics. By offering hope rather than condemnation and showing the practical applications of grace in today's world, Dirty God will appeal to both the committed Christian and the spiritual seeker looking for a more authentic faith. Challenging and engaging, Dirty God is sure to establish Johnnie Moore as an emerging voice for Millennial and Gen-X evangelicals for years to come.

The New Book of Christian Martyrs: The Heroes of Our Faith from the 1st Century to the 21st Centuryby Johnnie Moore

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