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.
However, in the end, the question that keeps haunting me, and I expect many other Americans, is this: “In the end, would what happened to Tyre Nichols have happened had Tyre been white?”
It is with profound sadness that I bring to your attention a subtle, but profound example of a devastating, anti-biblical teaching coming from one of the leading Evangelical pulpiteers in America today—Andy Stanley.
Occasionally a book tells such an extraordinary story that it makes for compelling and inspirational reading. Leadership Not by the Book by David Green with Bill High is just such a book.
Why such a rapid increase? The moral laxity of the culture brought on by the decline in moral clarity and intestinal fortitude of the American pulpit is one leading contributor.
We must ask God to give us the spirit of the prophet Jeremiah, who, while he condemned the grievous sins of the people, did so with a catch in his voice and a tear in his eye, as he wept over the sins of the people and the terrible consequences which inevitably followed in the wake of their idolatry and wickedness.
The stakes could not be higher for the future of Western Civilization than what is currently transpiring in Ukraine.
I cannot think of a more productive and helpful question for a Christian to ask himself or herself than, “Christian, who are you and what difference does it make?”
Whenever I explain this to people, inevitably some of them say, “That’s wonderful news for young people, but what about those of us who got off the straight and narrow fifteen or twenty years ago?”
During our most recent time together, this young man asked me, “What is the most important thing I can tell someone?” I immediately thought, “What a great question!” To answer that question you have to immediately go back to basics or first principles.
The question at issue in the 303 Creative v. Elenis case is really quite simple: Should an American citizen be compelled to violate their conscience and create speech advocating that which they find morally abhorrent?
