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.

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.

Willy Rice is right: Southern Baptists need a gender statement

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.

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

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.

Should Christian parents send their kids to Harvard?

The greatest sentence ever written?

I would strongly encourage everyone to purchase this little book, read it with your family, your friends, your youth group, etc., and discuss it.

The greatest sentence ever written?