God & country

Interview | We’re not a Christian nation, says Southern Baptist leader Richard Land, but America has certainly been blessed | Marvin Olasky

Richard Land's The Divided States of America? (W Publishing Group, 2007) has as its subtitle What Liberals AND Conservatives are missing in the God-and-country shouting match! It's a thoughtful and useful book that criticizes both sets of shouters—and Land himself is bilingual, able to speak both Christianese and academese. He has been president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, yet with his bachelors' degree from Princeton and doctorate from Oxford, he sneaks up on those who believe snooty stereotypes.

WORLD: Why do you write that "God may very well have more to do with America than liberals may think and less than Christians often assume"?

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