Producer's Desk — history

Come see Richard Land in Richmond, VA on Saturday, Feb 13.

He’ll be speaking at Grove Avenue Baptist Church at the In God We Trust conference. Other guests include, David Barton, Steven McDowell, Craig Parshall.

Register here. (Conference & lunch = $24, Conference only = $17)

Richard will broadcast Richard Land LIVE at the conference.

Health Care

• Free Our Health Care Petition
• Guest bio: John Goodman

Church & State

• Guest: Erwin Lutzer’s website
• Book: Is God on America’s Side?: The Surprising Answer and How It Affects Our Future - Erwin Lutzer
• Hitlers Cross - Erwin Lutzer
• Slandering Jesus: Six Lies People Tell about the Man Who Said He Was God - Erwin Lutzer
• Is God on America’s Side? audio interview CD - For Faith & Family

From 1994: 5500+ Words on why the killing of abortion providers is unbiblical, unchristian and un-American. (Also available in PDF 324 KB)

Related current articles:

• On the Murder of Dr. George Tiller - Richard Land
• SBC spokesman disavows statements by former second VP - ABP

“[Wiley] Drake said June 2 on “The Alan Colmes Show” that he is praying “imprecatory prayer” — reciting as prayer Psalms containing curses or prayers for punishment on enemies of the psalmist — against President Obama… [Sing] Oldham told Associated Baptist Press that Drake is not a spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention and his comments do not reflect the actions, resolutions or positions of the denomination.”

• RELATED - Washington Post

“Wiley Drake is far out of the mainstream, in fact he’s in a drainage ditch somewhere,” Land said.

My latest post at Casting Stones:

“I had the honor and privilege of attending last night’s second presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Some commentators and reporters have described the debate as subdued and uneventful. I can assure you, as someone who was actually in the audience, it was anything but…”

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“I have had the privilege of traveling to China as part of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. We spent two weeks in 2005 traveling to all parts of China to meet with religious groups, as well as government officials.

“It was clear during the course of our trip that our Chinese hosts were increasingly frustrated that the commission delegation was not more impressed with the degree of toleration afforded religious groups in China. During a lengthy discussion with Chinese officials on the last night of our trip, this frustration bubbled to the surface, and I explained to our Chinese hosts that we were aware of their frustration. There is no doubt more room for religious expression in today’s China than there ever was in the old Soviet Union or in China under Mao. They have expanded and gilded the cage in which people of religious faith operate in the People’s Republic of China. But it’s still a cage in which the government decides what degree of religious expression will be tolerated at any given time and, when the government’s line is crossed, what punishments will be meted out. As I explained to the Chinese officials, toleration is not freedom, and what the Chinese people deserve and are entitled to is religious freedom, not religious toleration.

“No one knows what the future course of religion will be in China, but it is certainly an expanding presence, particularly Christianity, in Chinese society. We need to pray for our Chinese brothers and sisters in Christ as they struggle in their country for freedom of conscience and freedom of faith.”

My latest post to Casting Stones…

During my last semi-weekly [bookstore] browse, I picked up a copy of Grand Theft Jesus, by Robert McElvaine, subtitled “The Hijacking of Religion in America.” Imagine my surprise at finding that I was mentioned on at least 10 pages, although never in a favorable light. That’s OK—everybody is entitled to their own opinion. However, as the late great Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan so famously said, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” Indeed.

I won’t bother to take issue with most of the scurrilous accusations made against me and many other Christian leaders in Grand Theft Jesus. I will, however, point out two places where the author’s facts are 100 percent wrong. I will then leave readers to draw their own conclusions about how they should judge the other alleged “facts” in this diatribe masquerading as a book…

Find out what McElvaine got wrong…

Forgetting the Evils of Communism - Goldberg

Report: Abortion doc attacks pro-life activist - Malkin

Why many Americans prefer their Sundays segregated - CNN

• Thanks to GetReligion for highlighting this.

Some local Nashville notables:

• At 450 homes, Habitat project is one of largest
• Delinquency Rate Low Among Habitat Owners

My latest post at Casting Stones:

“Despite the massive efforts (including the killing of tens of millions of their fellow human beings…) of the Communists to eradicate religion and create the “new” Soviet man, the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns of Russia survived and rose up to furnish eloquent testimony to the evil of the Soviet system and the terrible, terrible cost it exacted on real human beings by the tens of millions…”

Read the complete column…

My latest post…

Tony Snow was enormously grateful to his God and for his country. He once wrote, “If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.” When I first read that it startled me a little, because I’m really big on Independence Day, when we celebrate the incandescent brilliance and boundless courage of our Founding Fathers in their proclamation of timeless truths in the Declaration and in having the temerity to defy the world’s first superpower—the British Empire. Upon reflection, however, I believe Tony Snow was absolutely right…”

Read the complete column…