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 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?

  • 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.”

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