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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  • Easter: The promise of an eternal sunrise

    Easter: The promise of an eternal sunrise

    Why would Christians commemorate such a grievous miscarriage of justice as the crucifixion of God’s Perfect Son?

  • Mass shootings: Serious answers to a serious problem

    Mass shootings: Serious answers to a serious problem

    These ongoing shootings are violent eruptions symbolizing the extreme social malfunctions, seething and boiling just below the surface in America, and “gun control” is far too simple an answer.  Such a simplistic answer is equivalent to putting a Band-Aid on a severed artery and expecting the bleeding to stop.

  • Is the national media obsessed with racial conflict?

    Is the national media obsessed with racial conflict?

    What all of these reporters have refused to see in their single-minded obsession with ethnicity, is that this young man was in the grips of a far more prevalent evil in our society – pornography.

  • Chants and incantations to Aztec gods of human sacrifice in California’s public schools?

    Chants and incantations to Aztec gods of human sacrifice in California’s public schools?

    The idea that a tax-supported public school system would, or could, be used to unleash this vicious cultural and spiritual poison into our young people’s consciousness is both extremely offensive and quite possibly illegal.

  • A powerful voice from the past

    A powerful voice from the past

    I am not surprised that Mrs. King said that “if there’s one book that Martin . . . has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love.” She explained that this book embodied the foundational force behind Dr. King and his ministry — “the transcendent moral ethic of love.”

  • Ask Dr. Land: Should we still celebrate presidents' birthdays?

    Ask Dr. Land: Should we still celebrate presidents' birthdays?

    The fact that in the year of our Lord 2021 various public officials in varied local school districts have taken it upon themselves to rip President Washington’s and President Lincoln’s names off of public schools because they don’t meet some amorphous standard of “wokeness” is the equivalent of civil blasphemy.

  • Ask Dr. Land: Why do many progressive public policy initiatives seem to hurt the poorest?

    Ask Dr. Land: Why do many progressive public policy initiatives seem to hurt the poorest?

    It would seem to me that the lesson we should learn from the unintended consequences of these recent progressive policies is that we must look with a hard eye at what are the human consequences of “progressive policies".

  • Ask Dr. Land: What is President Biden’s pro-abortion blitz doing to America?

    Ask Dr. Land: What is President Biden’s pro-abortion blitz doing to America?

    The continued mass slaughter of our unborn citizens, approximately 25 to 30% of babies conceived each year in America, now for almost half a century, has devalued all human life, born and unborn, in America. It has brutalized us and made every human life less sacred.

  • Ask Dr. Land: What does President Biden’s pro-abortion blitz say about America?

    Ask Dr. Land: What does President Biden’s pro-abortion blitz say about America?

    Of the 12 nations ahead of America on the list, 11 of the nations are former or current communist regimes, which tells you something about the life-denying philosophies of these atheistic systems.  By the way, the least abortive country in the world per capita is Mexico with an abortion rate of .1 per thousand women aged 15-44.

  • Ask Dr. Land: How is Catholic Church's view of President Biden?

    Ask Dr. Land: How is Catholic Church's view of President Biden?

    When the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issues a statement representing 75 million American Catholics (23% of the total U.S. population) concerning the first Catholic president since JFK’s inauguration six decades ago, it is an important event.