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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  • The right to life amid a culture of death

    The right to life amid a culture of death

    I am often asked why I speak out on the abortion issue as frequently as I do. To me, that question would be analogous to asking Martin Luther King, Jr. why he focused so much of his life and ministry on fighting for equality under the law and in society for all Americans.

  • President George Bush’s 9/11 speech: A model of presidential leadership

    President George Bush’s 9/11 speech: A model of presidential leadership

    One speech did, however, arrest my attention, lift my spirits, and provide much-needed perspective on that horrible day and our current national crisis of identity.

  • AFGHANISTAN: A name that will live in infamy

    AFGHANISTAN: A name that will live in infamy

    The great American “bugout” from Afghanistan — a betrayal revealing a level of incompetence from our American military, security and political establishment is both breathtaking and incomprehensible. They have just presided over a national humiliation that will reverberate around the globe with truly legally dangerous consequences extending for the entire life span of virtually all living Americans.

  • How should Christians respond to America’s identity crisis? (pt 1)

    How should Christians respond to America’s identity crisis? (pt 1)

    It should be clear to all those not too blind to see or too deaf to hear that America is facing a profound identity crisis in terms of who we are and what it is we stand for as a people and as a nation. In significant ways, this “culture war” can be boiled down to two large groups of Americans, each deeply committed to their cause.

  • 'Unmasking’ critical race theory

    'Unmasking’ critical race theory

    After this week's column it would be wise for Bill to employ a food taster at Capitol Hill receptions and D.C. dinner parties. Why? It is quite simple – he has told the truth to the progressive elites, and they often react viscerally and violently to such effrontery.

  • Proud to be American? Why grateful is a better word

    Proud to be American? Why grateful is a better word

    For me, and for millions of Christians, being an American is a divinely bestowed blessing. Being born an American is like being born on third base in the great scheme of things and being proud of it is like being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple. No, we among all humanity, are the most fortunate of people, to have been, in the providence of God, born “American.”

  • A true culture war commences: Who runs the public’s schools?

    A true culture war commences: Who runs the public’s schools?

    Will it be the parents, and their elected representatives, or will it be national teachers unions and their minions in the educational bureaucracy that former Secretary of Education William Bennett called, “the blob.”

  • Will 'in-country' migration turn Texas blue?

    Will 'in-country' migration turn Texas blue?

    Many political prognosticators have been predicting (or is it hoping?) that these population shifts will turn Texas, and Florida, purple, then full-blown blue, greatly enhancing Democratic political fortunes nationwide.

  • Critical race theory: Kryptonite to foil Dr. King’s dream? (pt 2)

    Critical race theory: Kryptonite to foil Dr. King’s dream? (pt 2)

    I fear that some Americans have so marinated themselves in a world defined by the falsehoods of CRT that they developed a perverse set of priorities.

  • 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.

  • 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?

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