Richard D. Land

Richard D. Land

Christian Post Executive Editor

Dr. Richard Land, BA (magna cum laude), Princeton; D.Phil. Oxford; and Th.M., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, was president of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (1988-2013) and has served since 2013 as president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Land has been teaching, writing, and speaking on moral and ethical issues for the last half century in addition to pastoring several churches.

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  • June 17th – Victory for religious freedom at the Supreme Court

    June 17th – Victory for religious freedom at the Supreme Court

    Yesterday, June 17, 2021, is a day that should be celebrated and cherished by lovers of religious freedom and defenders of traditional religious values across this nation and beyond.

  • Critical Race Theory: A make-work project for child psychologists? (pt 1)

    Critical Race Theory: A make-work project for child psychologists? (pt 1)

    A mother, an immigrant from Thailand, married to a Caucasian, read aloud from a letter she wrote to the Williams County School Superintendent detailing the tremendously disturbing emotional impact this curriculum had on their sever-year-old son who as a result now despises the “white” half of himself.

  • The sacredness of every human being

    The sacredness of every human being

    This rather simple sounding concept was absolutely revolutionary in the world of the eighteenth century.  Over the next more than two centuries it has proven to guarantee and protect more basic human rights than any government yet conceived and incorporated on this planet.

  • Memorial Day: The defenders of civilization

    Memorial Day: The defenders of civilization

    Some progressives have tried to blame these increases on Covid dislocations in society, but the U.S. is the only country in the industrialized world to experience this dramatic spike in crime.  Everywhere else violent crime rates either were stable, or went down.

  • The First Amendment religion clauses: ‘Full-throated’ freedom or ‘mere’ toleration?

    The First Amendment religion clauses: ‘Full-throated’ freedom or ‘mere’ toleration?

    Under Article 18, each country could make Islam or some other religion, the official state religion supported by the people’s taxes.  Under the First Freedom system that would not or could not happen.

  • The First Amendment: Alive and well?

    The First Amendment: Alive and well?

    In doing so, they were unleashing a model that would “democratize” America beyond most of their wildest dreams, and in some cases nightmares.

  • The American family is endangered

    The American family is endangered

    Currently, the U.S. marriage rate is at an all-time low.  Almost ¼ of our minor children now live with just one parent and no other adult.  That appalling number is THREE TIMES the rate of ALL the others countries in the world. 

  • The evolving meaning of words

    The evolving meaning of words

    Words change meaning over time, usually measured in decades or generations.  It is important that we notice the shifting nuances of vocabulary to avoid serious misunderstanding and miscommunication.

  • Social media and the internet sowing racial discontent

    Social media and the internet sowing racial discontent

    As racial and ethnic tensions become ever more tense, even some of the progressive left are now expressing deep concern about media’s role in “fanning the flames” of racial and ethnic hostility among their fellow Americans.

  • Ask Dr. Land: Should President Biden be described as 'devout' Catholic?

    Ask Dr. Land: Should President Biden be described as 'devout' Catholic?

    This debate over President Biden’s fitness to receive communion and whether he is a devout Catholic accentuates the hierarchical nature of Catholic authority, an authority the church leadership, at least in America, is to varying degrees uncomfortable exercising.

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