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.
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.
Socialism is based on a false and destructive understanding of human nature.
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.
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.
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.
A veteran's son on sacrifice, service and why Congress owes the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln the truth.
One right in the Declaration of Independence is often not given the attention it deserves and has been questioned in the decades and centuries since its proclamation. What right is that?
Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence included a searing condemnation of slavery — and new research shows he meant 'all men are created equal' literally. Congress cut it anyway.
Why did George Washington supposedly compare the Senate to a coffee saucer? Richard Land uses the story to explain why the filibuster still matters — and why senators from both parties want to keep it.
I would strongly encourage everyone to purchase this little book, read it with your family, your friends, your youth group, etc., and discuss it.
