by Randall Balmer | Jul 26, 2011 | Opinion
Dear Southern Baptist Convention leaders, Please pardon my intrusion into your affairs, but I wonder if it might not be time for some adult supervision of your representative in Washington, D.C. When we last looked in on Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist...
by Randall Balmer | Mar 10, 2008 | Opinion
Richard Land has apologized for referring to Senator Charles Schumer as the “schmuck from New York.”Well, maybe not. During a visit to Criswell College at the end of January, Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious...
by Randall Balmer | Mar 4, 2008 | Opinion
Now we have a chance to see what the Religious Right is made of–if it truly stands for ethics and values, as its leaders profess, or whether its leaders can continue to engage in gutter politics and get away with it. According to a report in EthicsDaily.com,...