by Richard Pierard | Oct 28, 2009 | Opinion
Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, has demonstrated in recent days that he knows as little about ethics as he does religious liberty. He has accused me of wanting to be a “speech...
by Richard Pierard | Oct 9, 2009 | Opinion
The story on EthicsDaily.com about Richard Land, who heads Southern Baptists’ Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, comparing President Obama’s proposed health-care reform to the Nazi program offended me more than practically anything else I have seen...
by Richard Pierard | Jul 10, 2009 | Opinion
I recently received the statement signed by “47 religious leaders” titled “A Matter of Health … A Matter of Wholeness.” Not being a “religious leader” but just an insignificant Baptist layperson tucked away in the mountains of...
by Richard Pierard | Jun 1, 2009 | Opinion
Two significant conferences on environmental matters took place at the same time in May and only 250 miles apart. One was Al Gore’s North American summit in Nashville that focused on the ethics and equity of climate change and global warming; the other was...
by Richard Pierard | May 15, 2009 | Opinion
A prominent Christian conservative, Richard Land, has at long last condemned torture, at least in the extreme form of waterboarding, and many in the press have heaped accolades on him for this change of heart. Â Baptist Press praised the president of the Southern...