Richard Land and Stephan Bauman

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  Jun 30, 2023

  The extraordinary meaning of July 4th for America and the world

  The great American film director Billy Wilder (an Austrian immigrant who fled the Nazis), once said, “You’re only as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.” Our founders’ vision, proclaimed in 1776 and again in 1787, is the best thing any nation has ever done.

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  Jun 23, 2023

  A national emergency: A generation of undereducated children

  It appears that while our nation’s vast educational establishment was failing America’s youth before the pandemic, the COVID-19 lockdowns provoked a virtual “failure spiral” for a whole generation of America’s young people. It is both a personal and national tragedy.

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  Jun 16, 2023

  Southern Baptist Convention makes official statement on dangers of AI

  It appears this resolution makes Southern Baptists the first religious denomination to make an official statement on the challenges of AI and present a theological and ethical grid for dealing with this complex issue.

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  Jun 9, 2023

  Exploring the frontiers of AI amid depraved humans (part 2)

  First, people will continue to pursue the frontiers of artificial intelligence no matter what regulations may be passed to restrict it. In a very real sense, the toothpaste has left the tube and it cannot be put back in its container.

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  Jun 2, 2023

  Artificial intelligence: Blessing or curse?

  What are Americans to think when they read such disparate interpretations of the possible consequences of the rapidly expanding technological expertise in A.I.? Should our government seek to appoint experts to regulate how the technology is to be applied?

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  May 26, 2023

  Israel’s future?

  Like tens of millions of other Evangelicals in North America and beyond, I believe that Israel’s future is certain and fixed. 

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  May 19, 2023

  Let’s not forget stepmoms and stepdads in celebrating parenthood

  I have been sensitized over Mother’s Day weekend by dear Christian friends and some close family members that too often as we celebrate Motherhood on Mother’s Day, we unconsciously leave out a significant portion of that blessed sisterhood—namely, stepmothers. And, of course, the same lack of awareness could be applied to stepfathers.

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  May 12, 2023

  Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn and his 'Gulag Archipelago'

  This year, 2023, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s literary and historical masterpiece which described brilliantly the inhuman “archipelago” of horrific concentration camps established by Lenin in the wake of the creation of the Soviet Union in 1918 and expanded and refined under Stalin and his successors.

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  May 9, 2023

  The American Revolution is nothing like the French Revolution

  While some have mistakenly perceived the American and French Revolutions as similar in nature, they could not be more dissimilar.

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  Apr 28, 2023

  Unfinished business from Vietnam

  For those tens of millions of Americans who lived through the American experience of the war in Vietnam, it was almost without exception an excruciating and life-shaping experience.