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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  • How do you want to be remembered?

    How do you want to be remembered?

    All of this has caused me to ruminate on the subject of my own mortality.

  • The fall of the ‘Evil Empire’

    The fall of the ‘Evil Empire’

    I have been shocked by the almost complete lack of media attention to one of the most significant and extraordinary events of the 20th century — the collapse and fall of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day, 1991.

  • How do we know the Christmas story is true?

    How do we know the Christmas story is true?

    As I write these words, Christmas morning is just a few hours away. In the U.S., Christmas is making something of a comeback. Where I live here in Middle Tennessee, the “Merry Christmas” signs and greetings outnumber “Happy Holidays” signs by a seemingly ever-widening margin.

  • The significance of obituaries

    The significance of obituaries

    As I thought about this yesterday, a person came to mind who was a powerful example of this profound, but simple truth. This person was a prominent ophthalmologist and businessman who grew up in upstate New York and after medical school set up a medical practice in Alabama.

  • The Ukraine: A litmus test for Western civilization

    The Ukraine: A litmus test for Western civilization

    Everyone needs to understand that Putin cannot fulfill his life’s ambition to rebuild the old Soviet Union under the banner of Russia without putting Ukraine once again under Russian control and rule.

  • Is communist China the new Third Reich?

    Is communist China the new Third Reich?

    The closest analogy to the Nazi regime in Germany from 1933 to 1945 that the world has seen since is the current Chinese Communist (CCP) government in China.

  • Why Thanksgiving?

    Why Thanksgiving?

    These victims fleeing from religious persecution set out consciously to achieve what President Lincoln would later describe as government “of the people, by the people, for the people.”

  • Is paid parental leave pro-family?

    Is paid parental leave pro-family?

    Why is parental leave legislation so important? I believe if you consider yourself to be “pro-family,” you should support some form of government-subsidized, maternity parental leave.

  • Veterans Day: The debt we still owe

    Veterans Day: The debt we still owe

    All the men and women who were killed in defending America died before their natural time. Most of them were in their teens and 20s. My father, a World War II Navy veteran with 13 battle stars in the Pacific, to the day he died at 92, fondly remembered the men he served with, the men who died in their early twenties like he was, far from home.

  • What happened in Virginia and why it matters

    What happened in Virginia and why it matters

    This volatility was on full display last Tuesday in Virginia. Republican Glenn Youngkin won by increasing the Republican vote from 2020 in every county in the state. He won 13% of the black vote and received slightly more than half the Hispanic vote.

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