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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  • Southern Baptist Convention makes official statement on dangers of AI

    Southern Baptist Convention makes official statement on dangers of AI

    It appears this resolution makes Southern Baptists the first religious denomination to make an official statement on the challenges of AI and present a theological and ethical grid for dealing with this complex issue.

  • Exploring the frontiers of AI amid depraved humans (part 2)

    Exploring the frontiers of AI amid depraved humans (part 2)

    First, people will continue to pursue the frontiers of artificial intelligence no matter what regulations may be passed to restrict it. In a very real sense, the toothpaste has left the tube and it cannot be put back in its container.

  • Artificial intelligence: Blessing or curse?

    Artificial intelligence: Blessing or curse?

    What are Americans to think when they read such disparate interpretations of the possible consequences of the rapidly expanding technological expertise in A.I.? Should our government seek to appoint experts to regulate how the technology is to be applied?

  • Israel’s future?

    Israel’s future?

    Like tens of millions of other Evangelicals in North America and beyond, I believe that Israel’s future is certain and fixed. 

  • Let’s not forget stepmoms and stepdads in celebrating parenthood

    Let’s not forget stepmoms and stepdads in celebrating parenthood

    I have been sensitized over Mother’s Day weekend by dear Christian friends and some close family members that too often as we celebrate Motherhood on Mother’s Day, we unconsciously leave out a significant portion of that blessed sisterhood—namely, stepmothers. And, of course, the same lack of awareness could be applied to stepfathers.

  • Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn and his 'Gulag Archipelago'

    Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn and his 'Gulag Archipelago'

    This year, 2023, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s literary and historical masterpiece which described brilliantly the inhuman “archipelago” of horrific concentration camps established by Lenin in the wake of the creation of the Soviet Union in 1918 and expanded and refined under Stalin and his successors.

  • The American Revolution is nothing like the French Revolution

    The American Revolution is nothing like the French Revolution

    While some have mistakenly perceived the American and French Revolutions as similar in nature, they could not be more dissimilar.

  • Unfinished business from Vietnam

    Unfinished business from Vietnam

    For those tens of millions of Americans who lived through the American experience of the war in Vietnam, it was almost without exception an excruciating and life-shaping experience.

  • A religious freedom victory?

    A religious freedom victory?

    On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a civil rights and religious liberty case Groff v. DeJoy that may well have a significant impact on the religious freedom of American workers.

  • Ulysses S. Grant: The quintessential ‘American’ president?

    Ulysses S. Grant: The quintessential ‘American’ president?

    Most Americans alive today are not aware that in the last half of the 19th century, President Ulysses S. Grant was probably the most admired man in America with the exception of President Abraham Lincoln.

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