Richard D. Land

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  Apr 23, 2021

  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.

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  Apr 16, 2021

  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.

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  Apr 9, 2021

  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.

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  Apr 2, 2021

  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?

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  Mar 26, 2021

  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.

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  Mar 19, 2021

  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.

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  Mar 12, 2021

  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.

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  Mar 5, 2021

  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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  Feb 26, 2021

  Ask Dr. Land: Should we still celebrate presidents' birthdays?

  The fact that in the year of our Lord 2021 various public officials in varied local school districts have taken it upon themselves to rip President Washington’s and President Lincoln’s names off of public schools because they don’t meet some amorphous standard of “wokeness” is the equivalent of civil blasphemy.

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  Feb 19, 2021

  Ask Dr. Land: Why do many progressive public policy initiatives seem to hurt the poorest?

  It would seem to me that the lesson we should learn from the unintended consequences of these recent progressive policies is that we must look with a hard eye at what are the human consequences of “progressive policies".