Producer's Desk — April, 2008

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…

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.

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)

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!

Read the complete post at Casting Stones…

April 17 and 18:

Richard Land interviews Ben Stein on Ben’s new film Expelled!

The broadcast will air on For Faith & Family on Thursday and Friday of this week.

Expelled! opens in theaters on Friday April 18, 2008.

My latest post at Casting Stones:

In his new book, Gross National Happiness, Dr. Brooks finds that “conservatives” are happier than “liberals.” In fact, Dr. Brooks’ research shows that conservatives have been happier than liberals for nearly four decades. Why?

Dr. Brooks’ research reveals that conservatives are more likely to be married and go to religious services on a weekly basis (twice as likely in both cases).

Conservatives are also more likely to have children, and more of them, than liberals. Dr. Brooks found parents are significantly happier than non-parents.

Read my complete commentary…

On April 12, 2007, Richard Land appeared on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report

My latest post at Casting Stones:

Excerpt: “Do “conservatives” give more to charitable causes than “liberals”? Dr. Brooks, a professor at Syracuse University, was quite astounded with the results of his own research, which was so at variance with the common perception of the generous “liberal” and the Scrooge-like “conservative.” “

Read the complete entry at Casting Stones, a Beliefnet.com blog.

The Economist reports on Arthur Brook’s latest publication, Gross National Happiness

“When researchers ask parents what they enjoy, it turns out that they prefer almost anything to looking after their children… Despite this, American parents are much more likely to be happy than non-parents. This is for two reasons, argues Mr. Brooks, an economist at Syracuse University. Even if children are irksome now, they lend meaning to life in the long term. And the kind of people who are happy are also more likely to have children. Which leads on to Mr Brooks’s most controversial finding: in America, conservatives are happier than liberals. “

Read the rest at The Economist…

Juan Williams comments on Obama and King.

“But when Barack Obama, arguably the best of this generation of black or white leaders, finds it easy to sit in Rev. Wright’s pews and nod along with wacky and bitterly divisive racial rhetoric, it does call his judgment into question. And it reveals a continuing crisis in racial leadership. What would Jesus do? There is no question he would have left that church.”

Read the rest of Juan William’s commentary…