News Articles by Dwayne Hastings

NASHVILLE (BP) — While many Americans don’t have the time or desire to get beyond the political attacks and counterattacks in an election season, Richard Land believes it is worth the effort for voters to go beyond the ads to determine the best candidate for office. “Voters need to do their homework before they step […]

NASHVILLE (BP) — While many Americans don’t have the time or desire to get beyond the political attacks and counterattacks in an election season, Richard Land believes it is worth the effort for voters to go beyond the ads to determine the best candidate for office. “Voters need to do their homework before they step […]

NASHVILLE (BP) — The trustee search committee for a new president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has launched a website to aid in identifying a candidate for the position. The SBC entity addresses moral, ethical and religious liberty issues from a biblical perspective from its offices in Nashville and Washington, […]

NASHVILLE (BP) — The trustee search committee for a new president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has launched a website to aid in identifying a candidate for the position. The SBC entity addresses moral, ethical and religious liberty issues from a biblical perspective from its offices in Nashville and Washington, […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Facing a full agenda, trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission opened their annual meeting with an extended time of intercession. The meeting was punctuated with even more time dedicated to prayer over its two-day session.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Facing a full agenda, trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission opened their annual meeting with an extended time of intercession. The meeting was punctuated with even more time dedicated to prayer over its two-day session.

NEW ORLEANS (BP) — In his first public comments on events that drew a sharp reprimand from trustees of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Richard Land acknowledged June 19 the charges of both plagiarism and “racially insensitive and hurtful remarks” following the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, expressing hope nothing he did […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Richard Land suggested it was time for Rick Santorum to abandon his presidential campaign in an Easter Day appearance on the CBS News program "Face the Nation."

NASHVILLE (BP) — Clement Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s minister for minority affairs and the only Christian serving in that government, was posthumously awarded the 2011 John Leland Religious Liberty Award by the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission during the Sept. 12-13 meeting of ERLC’s trustees. Bhatti, who was assassinated March 2 of this year, […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) — What has changed since Sept. 11, 2001? “We are sobered,” Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land said. “We are more aware than we were before that the post-Cold War interlude of peace is over,” said Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. “We are fully cognizant of the fact that […]