Producer's Desk
What is “The Producer’s Desk”?
As you know, Richard Land LIVE! is a once-a-week broadcast. This is fine and good, but some of us are—let’s be honest—borderline ‘addicts’ when it comes to reading the news and blogs. Fear not! This is where the Producer’s Desk fills that Sunday-through-Friday void when RLL is not broadcasting.
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-The Producers
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Christians and Public Policy: More news from the people
posted by Richard Land on 05.09.2008
My latest post at Casting Stones:
“The American people have the odd habit of deciding for themselves what they think is appropriate and then acting accordingly. The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” The facts seem to be that Americans, even those who never attend worship, are more than comfortable with people of faith being involved and speaking out on the moral implications of the public policy decisions facing the nation.”
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Christians in Politics: Too much or too little?
posted by Richard Land on 05.07.2008
My latest post at Casting Stones:
“…a national polling firm for LifeWay Research and the ERLC conducted a survey asking Americans to respond to this statement: “I am concerned that at times Christians are too involved in politics.”
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“Children First” column for the Wall Street Journal
posted by Richard Land on 05.02.2008
Topics: abuse, children, religious freedom
My latest column, written for The Wall Street Journal:
Excerpt:
“The removal of 462 children from the FLDS polygamist sect’s… ranch in Eldorado, Texas…has raised important questions about separation of church and state and the First Amendment’s “free exercise” protections.
Americans believe fervently in the “unalienable” right to the “free exercise” of religious faith without interference from government. However, we also have a deep-seated interest in protecting children from abuse.
What should Americans make of all this? How do we respect religious freedom while protecting children?”
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VIDEO: Richard Land at International Religious Freedom Report
posted by Matt Hawkins on 05.02.2008
Topics: international, religious freedom
Video from C-SPAN: Commissioners talk to reporters and answer questions of their 2008 recommendations to the State Department on concerns for religious treatment and tolerance of religious minorities in various parts of the world.
“Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, or belief, simply does not exist in North Korea.” - Richard Land
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A National Day of Prayer
posted by Richard Land on 05.01.2008
Topics: human rights, prayer, religious freedom
My latest post at Casting Stones:
“Today, May 1, was the 20th anniversary of the National Day of Prayer authorized by Congress and President Reagan. I had the great privilege of attending the National Day of Prayer Observance in the East Room of the White House. As I left the White House and made my way to a press conference in Senator Russell Park (across the street from the Russell Senate office building) to protest the manifold human rights abuses perpetrated by China and North Korea, I could not help but express my heartfelt gratitude to God for the blessing of having been born in this great country…”
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New studies support abstinence education
posted by Matt Hawkins on 04.29.2008
Topics: abstinence, education
“Abstinence education is effective at delaying sexual initiation and reducing the levels of early sexual activity, according to two studies presented April 22 at the National Press Club in Washington.”
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Divorce—Yet More Costs to Society
posted by Richard Land on 04.25.2008
Topics: divorce, economy, marriage
My latest post at Casting Stones:
“One NFL Hall of Fame football player, who now works full-time with a Christian ministry to the incarcerated, has said that for years now he has been asking all the prisoners with whom he is in contact, “Would those of you who had a good relationship with your father please raise you hand?”
The Hall of Famer said he has been asking that question for several years and he is still waiting for the first prisoner’s hand to go up…”
Read the full post at Casting Stones…
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Richard Land interviews Ben Stein - Part 2
posted by Matt Hawkins on 04.18.2008
Topics: ben stein, intelligent design, racial reconcilation
Part 2 of Richard’s interview with Ben Stein is now online.
(Originally broadcast on the FaithandFamily.com radio broadcast.)
“I could be wrong, I’m often wrong, but it seems to me we’ve just been fed a lot of horse poopy…” - Ben Stein
Transcript after the break or in PDF (178 KB)
- Baptist Press reports on this interview.
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Richard Land interviews Ben Stein - Part 1
posted by Matt Hawkins on 04.17.2008
Topics: ben stein, intelligent design, human rights
Part 1 of Richard’s interview with Ben Stein is now online.
(Originally broadcast on the FaithandFamily.com radio broadcast.)
“Well, it is not just Darwinian… it is Neo-Darwinism, because Darwin himself, he was an open-minded, broad-minded guy. He was a genius. There are no two ways about that.
He got a lot of things wrong and he was a stupendously racist guy, but he was in the category of very, very smart people.
Today’s followers of Darwin, they’re little dictators.” - Ben Stein
Transcript after the break or in PDF (183 KB)
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“Bitter-gate” or “Cling-gate”?
posted by Richard Land on 04.16.2008
Topics: conservatism, culture, liberalism, politics
My latest post at Casting Stones:
I was getting very sleepy as I drove across middle Tennessee the other day, so I stopped to get some coffee at a Waffle House in a rural area.
As I sipped my coffee, I eavesdropped on a conversation among some male blue-collar workers who were raising their cholesterol levels while solving the world’s problems. Sen. Obama’s clinging comments came up and one middle-aged man in bib overalls and work boots said, “I hate to say it, but he sounds like just another limousine liberal to me!”
Does this “cling-gate” story have a shelf life—Yep!