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.

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  • John Leland: American patriot and First Amendment hero

    John Leland: American patriot and First Amendment hero

    Leland, well-known during his lifetime, has faded in the nation’s memory in the last two centuries. However, he was an active participant in two of the most important religious liberty events in the nation’s early history.

  • A free church in a free state is still the Christian ideal

    A free church in a free state is still the Christian ideal

    As Southern Baptists came together for their annual convention this week in Indianapolis, they made emphasizing their enormous commitment to religious liberty a high priority.

  • Trump's guilty verdict proves either these 2 things

    Trump's guilty verdict proves either these 2 things

    The huge rush in small contributions to former President Trump’s campaign in the aftermath of the New York verdict indicates that the American people have noticed and they are in no mood to tolerate it any longer. 

  • An attitude of gratitude

    An attitude of gratitude

    In reality, we all should accept this challenge to “earn it.” Many thousands of our fellow citizens have laid down their lives on the altar of freedom to preserve our liberty.

  • The Christian’s duty in a revolutionary age (part 2)

    The Christian’s duty in a revolutionary age (part 2)

    More and more Americans also sense that American culture is reaching a critical moment, “a fork in the road moment,” when a culture takes a direction from which it is difficult, if not virtually impossible, to retrace and rectify.

  • The Christian’s duty in a revolutionary age (part 1)

    The Christian’s duty in a revolutionary age (part 1)

    As Christians, we should draw encouragement, however, from the fact that we face a situation remarkably analogous to the one that confronted our first-century spiritual ancestors.

  • Genocidal antisemitism in America?

    Genocidal antisemitism in America?

    The cultural Marxists do not want us to know our history, because a nation’s history tells us who we are. We are better than these demonstrations. We must teach our young people our history.

  • Not again: A preacher denouncing politics

    Not again: A preacher denouncing politics

    This idea of an inevitable clash between the Gospel and politics is false and contrived.

  • Dr. Phil’s clarion call to an urgent American conversation with ourselves

    Dr. Phil’s clarion call to an urgent American conversation with ourselves

    Dr. Phil commissioned a comprehensive study of American culture, and he emphasizes throughout that he is addressing culture, not politics, problems that go way deeper than the Republican-Democrat divide.

  • 'God Bless the USA Bible’: Good idea or bad?

    'God Bless the USA Bible’: Good idea or bad?

    The latest example of this presidential election year phenomenon is the appearance of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump touting Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA Bible,” which includes the Bible bound together with the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the lyrics to the chorus of Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.”

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