Richard D. Land
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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Ethnicity, eugenics, and the SAT — the way forward
Eugenics was the “Frankenstein monster” offspring of Darwin’s theory of evolutionary origins being mated with Galton’s racially-tinged genetics.
Ask Dr. Land: Why are Americans so lonely?
The issue that most resonated prevalently among the American population was a crippling sense of emotional isolation, even in densely populated urban areas.
Ask Dr. Land: Should fallen Christian leaders be allowed to return to ministry?
Should Christian leaders be restored to ministry after moral failures?
Ask Dr. Land: The pilgrimage of a Baptist Christian — Religious symbols, celebrations and Roman popery (pt. 1)
I must confess that my views on the importance of symbols advocating for, and discipling people in, the Christian faith have evolved over the course of my Christian life.
Ask Dr. Land: Did God cause the coronavirus pandemic? If not, why did He allow it?
Thus, God cannot be the author of evil. The question then becomes, if God is omnipotent, why did He allow the CVP to perpetrate such pain and such suffering?
Ask Dr. Land: Why are we so shocked by the coronavirus pandemic?
The coronavirus has upended our world here in America and in much of Europe. And yet, coronavirus deaths are at the tail end of this list.
Ask Dr. Land: Is it permissible to ration health care in a medical crisis?
But if and when this sad and lamentable state of affairs does eventuate in some of our hospitals, American culture is not at all prepared to react in as Christian way as we would have earlier in our history