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

    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.

  • Forgetting how to blush

    Forgetting how to blush

    There was a time when being caught celebrating something wicked made people turn red with embarrassment. That shame worked as a kind of social restraint. So what happens when it disappears?

  • Willy Rice is right: Southern Baptists need a gender statement

    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.

  • Never forget? I bet you will

    Never forget? I bet you will

    So much for “never forget.”

  • Socialism's fatal flaw: Misunderstanding human nature

    Socialism's fatal flaw: Misunderstanding human nature

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

  • Inside my meeting with Reza Pahlavi: His plan for a free Iran

    Inside my meeting with Reza Pahlavi: His plan for a free Iran

    I recently met Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi with a group of evangelical leaders. What I heard wasn't theory — it was a concrete roadmap for the day after the Islamic Republic falls, one built on religious freedom, rule of law, and an ancient bond with Israel.

  • Living in our age of rage

    Living in our age of rage

    "People today are mad about everything." From data centers to politics, rage has become the default cultural setting — but the Bible has been dealing with angry mobs since Acts 14. Here's what it teaches us about anger that doesn't turn into sin.

  • 2 nations socialism wrecked — and what they have in common

    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.

  • God in the hands of angry sinners

    God in the hands of angry sinners

    The problem today is that we are put off by the idea of any harshness coming from God, let alone the eternal kind. And if any trouble does come calling, we reverse Edward's sermon, putting God in the hands of angry sinners.

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

    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.