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Southern Baptists and the General Culture: Marching to a Different Beat – Part II
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Dr. Richard Land
LifeWay Research, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, has released some interesting results from its in-depth surveys of Southern Baptist pastors across the nation. Eighty percent of Southern Baptist pastors say that they currently support and plan to vote for Senator John McCain (R-AZ), the presumptive 2008 Republican nominee for…
Southern Baptists and the General Culture: Marching to a different beat—Part 1
By
Dr. Richard Land
Southern Baptists—the largest Protestant denomination in America, with just under 16.3 million members in nearly 44,000 local congregations—have some awareness that they are out of step with the broader culture in which they live. As Evangelicals, they expect to be. Indeed, if they were not a significant degree out of step with the larger culture,…
Score one for the U.S. Supreme Court
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Dr. Richard Land
Monday, May 19, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court sent a significant signal that they may be returning to sanity on the issue of child pornography. By a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress and state legislatures can pass laws that criminalize the advertising and promotion of child pornography. This is the first time…
Who shall prevail—the judges or the people?
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Dr. Richard Land
The California Supreme Court has ruled (by a 4-3 vote) in its supposedly “infinite” wisdom that the California state constitution requires that same-sex couples must have the same right to get married as heterosexual couples do. The California Supreme Court did this in spite of the fact that the people of California voted in a…
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