Dan Darling and Richard D. Land

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  Oct 23, 2026

  Obama is wrong to call Jews ‘excessive.’ Elisha Wiesel sets him straight

  Former President Barack Obama told a Belfast audience that the Jews “took land off people” and were “excessive.” Elisha Wiesel is right to call those words dangerous, and Christians should say so too.

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  Oct 16, 2026

  Nidal Hasan’s execution: What ‘public’ should mean for Christians

  Please allow me to be crystal clear: I support the death penalty. … Such ‘public’ or livestreamed executions make a spectacle of the event. I believe that cheapens and coarsens the public’s view of human life.

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  Oct 9, 2026

  Should Christian parents pull their kids out of public school?

  I believe Christian parents make a terrible mistake when they turn their children over to the state for education for the majority of their formative years.

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  Oct 2, 2026

  Hyde Amendment at 50: The law that may have saved millions

  Henry Hyde told me personally that he considered passing the Hyde Amendment his greatest achievement as a legislator. I agree with him.

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  Sep 25, 2026

  Willy Rice is right: Southern Baptists need a gender statement

  Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice has asked the SBC Executive Committee to recommend adding an article on gender and human sexuality to the Baptist Faith & Message 2000. Richard Land, who served on the committee that drafted that confession, says Rice is standing well within the Baptist tradition.

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  Sep 18, 2026

  Socialism's fatal flaw: Misunderstanding human nature

  Socialism is based on a false and destructive understanding of human nature.

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  Sep 11, 2026

  2 nations socialism wrecked — and what they have in common

  Socialism has never 'worked' anywhere it has been tried — not if by 'working' you mean increasing prosperity. Richard Land traces the pattern from Castro's Cuba to Churchill's Britain.

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  Sep 4, 2026

  Did Al Mohler really propose a religious test for political office?

  Several Baptist colleagues reached out to Richard Land, stunned by a fellow leader's recent remarks on Christian Nationalism. Here's why Land — who has known him for 30 years — believes those remarks contradict core Baptist convictions on religious liberty.

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  Aug 28, 2026

  Should Christian parents send their kids to Harvard?

  Sean Duffy worries Harvard could "corrupt" his daughter's mind. Richard Land has been there. In this personal reflection, the longtime Southern Baptist leader traces his own path from a working-class Houston upbringing to Princeton's Ivy League halls — and what he learned parents actually need to weigh.

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  Aug 21, 2026

  The USS Abraham Lincoln: America must demand the truth

  A veteran's son on sacrifice, service and why Congress owes the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln the truth.