Richard Land on Obama’s transition team

posted by Matthew Hawkins on 12.30.2008

Topics: evangelicals, politics, religion

This interview with Richard Land from Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News and World Report:

Interview: Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land on Obama Transition Team’s Religious Outreach Offensive

“For my story today on the Obama transition team reaching out actively to religious groups as it crafts a policy agenda and prepares to set up its own version of the Bush White House’s Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, I wanted to know if conservative religious groups were receiving the same red-carpet treatment as their faith-based counterparts on the left. So, I called Richard Land, president of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest evangelical denomination. Here’s our interview…

Read the complete interview…