by Richard V. Pierard | Mar 30, 2010 | Opinion
The adoption of the health care reform bill is one of the great achievements of recent American history. Until now, the United States had been the only industrialized nation not to have a system of universal health for its citizens. The efforts to block this reform...
by Richard Pierard | Nov 24, 2009 | Opinion
When I read on EthicsDaily.com a few days ago that the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina had “defunded” the Baptist Center for Ethics, I was reminded once again of how little Southern Baptists really understand ethics. When a Southern Baptist...
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...
