Richard D. Land

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  Oct 13, 2023

  The ethical bankruptcy of ‘moral equivalency’

  Those who claim a “moral equivalency” between the Hamas terrorists and the Israeli government betray either a lack of integrity or a seriously demagnetized moral compass.

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  Oct 6, 2023

  Reform movements and false comparisons: Southern Baptist case study

  The bigger question I was asked (and I get some version of this question with some regularity) was: “There are still problems in the Convention, and many things are not the way I envisioned they would be when I was ‘fighting the good fight’ for the Bible’s inerrancy. Was it worth it? Did it do any good?”

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  Sep 29, 2023

  Why the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a powerful tool (part 2)

  Many Islamic countries have had difficulty with the principle of changing one’s religion, but almost every Islamic country has signed the Universal Declaration, thus pledging themselves to this principle of freedom of conscience and religious expression.

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  Sep 22, 2023

  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 75th anniversary (part 1)

  The UDHR articulates in its 30 articles every human being’s basic, fundamental rights and freedoms and affirms those rights as universal and unalienable. The UDHR directly led to the development of the concept of international human rights law.

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  Sep 15, 2023

  Cult of individualism and the loneliness epidemic

  None of this, sadly, should surprise American Christians as we have lived and experienced the cult of individualism and its deleterious impact on our culture. Ever-widening concentric circles of destruction have been wrought by the siren song of narcissistic self-worship and unwavering devotion to that cult’s unholy trinity of “I, Myself, and Me.”

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  Sep 8, 2023

  Reading Holy Scripture with a telescope and microscope

  It has been my observation and experience that in the branches of Christendom in which I have interacted, the microscope has been far more often employed than the telescope. This has led to less understanding of the “Big Picture” than would be the case otherwise.

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  Sep 1, 2023

  60 years since MLK's 'I have a dream speech': Good and bad changes since

  For me, someone raised in the segregated South, having attended segregated schools, a segregated church, and living in a segregated neighborhood, his sermon to America was a clarion call to commitment and action in support of a cause that was demanded both by our founding documents and, more importantly, by the Gospel proclaimed in the New Testament.

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  Aug 25, 2023

  American Christianity just got an engine boost of Gospel commitment

  I believe that historians of American Christianity, looking back two decades from now, will identify August 22, 2023, as a truly significant day in the history of 21st-century Christianity in America.

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  Aug 18, 2023

  Adrian Rogers' pastoral legacy: Passing on dedication to an inerrant Holy Scripture and equipping of local church pastors

  In one of the last public addresses Dr. Adrian Rogers delivered before his untimely demise at the age of 74, he warned pastors of the mortal threat presented to their ministries by the sins of lust and pride.

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  Aug 11, 2023

  Is Lady Justice still blind? (part 2)

  Jack Smith’s prosecution (or was it “persecution”) of Gov. Bob McConnell was so overly zealous that it provided an extremely rare unanimous Supreme Court repudiation of it. Bob McConnell’s legal expenses amounted to a devastating $27 million.