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Related organizations Cooperative Program North American Mission Board International Mission Board LifeWay Christian Resources Women's Missionary Union Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission Baptist Press Cooperative education is a structured method of combining academic education with practical work experience. ... The North American Mission Board (NAMB) was founded in 1997 out of the roots of the Home Mission Board. ... The International Mission Board (or IMB) is a missionary sending agency affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention which opperates in virtually every nation except the United States and Canada (these nations are serviced by the SBCs North American Mission Board). ... LifeWays headquarters, One LifeWay Plaza, are located in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Womens Missionary Union is an auxiliary of the Southern Baptist Convention that was founded in 1888. ... The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is the political advocacy agency of the Southern Baptist Convention. ... Baptist Press (BP) is a religious news service based at the headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. ...
Seminaries Golden Gate Midwestern New Orleans Southeastern Southern Southwestern Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is one of six official seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) is a seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention. ... The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is located in Louisville, Kentucky and is the flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, or SBC. Southern Seminary or SBTS is the oldest of the seminaries in the SBC and was founded in Greenville, South Carolina in 1859 by James Petigru Boyce who served... Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, located in Fort Worth, Texas, is a private, non-profit institution of higher learning associated with the Southern Baptist Convention whose stated mission is to provide theological education for individuals engaging in Christian ministry. ... This box: view • talk • edit

Dr. Richard Land is the president of Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the public policy entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, a post he has held since 1988. He is also the host of For Faith & Family and For Faith & Family's Insight, two nationally syndicated radio programs. He was the primary author of the Land letter, an open letter sent to President George W. Bush by leaders of the religious right in October 2002 which outlined a "just war" argument in support of the subsequent military invasion of Iraq. The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is the political advocacy agency of the Southern Baptist Convention. ... The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States-based cooperative ministry agency serving Baptist churches around the world. ... The Land Letter was a letter sent to President George W. Bush by evangelical Christian leaders on October 3, 2002 which outlined their theological support for a just war pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and the 43rd and current President of the United States. ... Just war refers to the concept of warfare as being justified, typically in accordance with a particular situation, or scenario, and expanded or supported by reference to doctrine, politics, tradition, or historical commentary. ... Thois article covers invasion specifics. ...

In 2001, President Bush appointed Land to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a federal agency, where he continues to serve. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is a US government agency created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to monitor the status of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief abroad, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related international instruments...

Land appeared prominently in the PBS Frontline documentary The Jesus Factor, covering the Evangelical Christian views of President George W. Bush. The word evangelicalism usually refers to a tendency in diverse branches of conservative Christianity. ... A Christian is a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, referred to as Christ. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American businessman and politician, was elected in 2000 as the 43rd President of the United States of America, re-elected in 2004, and is currently serving his second term in that office. ...

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Abstinence from Alcohol

On July 26, 2006, Land wrote an article for the Baptist Press in which he argued that Christians should abstain from alcohol.[1] The argument he uses is that a Christian essentially has a choice between using his Christian freedom to drink alcohol, or having a good witness to unbelievers. The choice he sets before his readers is "my wine or my witness?" Baptist Press (BP) is a religious news service based at the headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

Education

A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... A Masters degree which is typically earned after one has already completed a Master of Divinity or a Master of Theological Studies. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The University of Oxford (often called Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

Quotes

I was in Houston last week and didn't see one solitary mosquito, which is amazing if you knew how Houston was... Like mosquitoes, if you're going to deal with terrorists you can't just swat them or use insect repellent. You have to drain the swamp. Saddam Hussein is one of the major swamps. The U.S. would be doing the world a favor and acting in the best interest of future citizens of the U.S. by removing Saddam from power. - Christianity Today, September 4, 2002)
We often have been reminded of the potent question from Charles Sheldon’s “In His Steps”: “What Would Jesus Do?” Let us ponder that question. Can anyone really imagine Jesus weighing the decision, “My wine or my witness?” -- and choosing the wine?- Baptist Press, July 24, 2006)

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: , [1]; born April 28, 1937[2]), was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003, when he was deposed in the United States-led invasion of Iraq. ... What would Jesus do? bracelets The phrase What would Jesus do? (WWJD) achieved immense popularity in the United States by the mid-1990s and had become the personal motto of thousands of Christians, who used the phrase as a reminder that, under many interpretations of the Bible, Jesus is the...

External links

Richard Land Bio at ERLC.com
PBS Frontline: The Jesus Factor
PBS Frontline: Interview with Richard Land

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Millennial Studies: Lunatics Wating for the End. Again. (3052 words)
	Richard Landes is assistant professor of History at Boston University and the executive director of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University.
	Richard Landes is the director of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University.
	Landes is also a scholar of the millennial fever that surrounded the year 1000 and its predictions of plagues, famines, and apocalypse.

Copyright (18235 words)
	Landes' and Posner's choices are tied to their assumptionof risk neutrality; this is not a purely descriptive or simplifying assumption,but one which is convenient to their political agenda and to the particularconclusions they would like to reach.
	Landes and Posner try to avoid this conclusion in two ways.First, contrary to their habit in other cases, they do not take the appellatecourt's discussion of the facts at face value, but instead read the lowercourt's opinion to state that there was a prevailing custom to carry radios onboard tugboats (p.
	Landes andPosner argue that, on the contrary, "there is no increase in value in therape case because it is not the kind [*1474] of coercive act thatimproves the operation of the market, as the theft [of food] from [a deserted]cabin does" (p.

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