Daniel Darling and Richard Land

Daniel Darling and Richard Land

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  • An attitude of gratitude

    An attitude of gratitude

    In reality, we all should accept this challenge to “earn it.” Many thousands of our fellow citizens have laid down their lives on the altar of freedom to preserve our liberty.

  • The Christian’s duty in a revolutionary age (part 2)

    The Christian’s duty in a revolutionary age (part 2)

    More and more Americans also sense that American culture is reaching a critical moment, “a fork in the road moment,” when a culture takes a direction from which it is difficult, if not virtually impossible, to retrace and rectify.

  • The Christian’s duty in a revolutionary age (part 1)

    The Christian’s duty in a revolutionary age (part 1)

    As Christians, we should draw encouragement, however, from the fact that we face a situation remarkably analogous to the one that confronted our first-century spiritual ancestors.

  • Genocidal antisemitism in America?

    Genocidal antisemitism in America?

    The cultural Marxists do not want us to know our history, because a nation’s history tells us who we are. We are better than these demonstrations. We must teach our young people our history.

  • Not again: A preacher denouncing politics

    Not again: A preacher denouncing politics

    This idea of an inevitable clash between the Gospel and politics is false and contrived.

  • Dr. Phil’s clarion call to an urgent American conversation with ourselves

    Dr. Phil’s clarion call to an urgent American conversation with ourselves

    Dr. Phil commissioned a comprehensive study of American culture, and he emphasizes throughout that he is addressing culture, not politics, problems that go way deeper than the Republican-Democrat divide.

  • 'God Bless the USA Bible’: Good idea or bad?

    'God Bless the USA Bible’: Good idea or bad?

    The latest example of this presidential election year phenomenon is the appearance of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump touting Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA Bible,” which includes the Bible bound together with the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the lyrics to the chorus of Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.”

  • A durable Baptist public theology for confusing times

    A durable Baptist public theology for confusing times

    While many Christians refresh important debates about the intersection of the church and state, Baptists remain confident in a public theology that is as durable in the 21st century as it was in the 18th century.

  • What does it mean to be created in God’s Image?

    What does it mean to be created in God’s Image?

    Who and what is a human being? This is perhaps the most compelling moral and ethical question facing us today.

  • Senator Joseph Lieberman: American extraordinaire

    Senator Joseph Lieberman: American extraordinaire

    Here was Senator Lieberman, son of 19th-century Jewish immigrants, raised in Connecticut, whose father owned a liquor store, and me, whose family first settled in Virginia in the 1630s, raised in Texas as the son of a Baptist welder, and we had the same vision for our remarkable country.