FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — Officials at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary have announced plans to create a Richard Land Center for Cultural Engagement, honoring Southern Baptists' public-policy guru.
Land joins another well-known conservative Baptist activist, Paul Pressler, in becoming a building namesake. Pressler, a Texas judge who helped lead the so-called “conservative resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention, will have a law school named after him at the Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College.
Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission since 1988, has represented Southern Baptists' concerns in the media and on Capitol Hill for two decades. In 2005, he was recognized by Time magazine as one of “The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America.”
The center will conduct research in Christian morality and political action and study cultural and philosophical issues. Further details for the funding and construction of the center will be released at a later date, according to a seminary press release.
Educated at Princeton University, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Oxford University, Land spent three terms on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and hosts three nationally syndicated radio programs. He is the author of the book The Divided States of America?: What Liberals AND Conservatives are missing in the God-and-country shouting match!.
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is a public-policy agency that supports conservative evangelical scholars, families and politicians.
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