Richard D. Land

Richard Land has served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission since 1988. During his tenure as spokesman on Capitol Hill for the largest Protestant denomination in the country, Dr. Land has represented Southern Baptists’ interests in Congress, before U.S. Presidents, and in the major media.

In February, 2005, Land was featured in Time magazine as one of “The Twenty-five Most Influential Evangelicals in America.” In May 2004, Land was recognized by the National Journal as one of the 10 top church-state experts “politicians will call on when they get serious about addressing an important public policy issue.”

He is the host of two nationally syndicated radio programs, For Faith & Family and For Faith & Family's Insight. The For Faith & Family Broadcast Ministry is heard by more than 1.5 million listeners each week on over 600 radio stations across the country and throughout the world on the Internet. Richard Land Live! is Land’s latest radio initiative and it is syndicated on the Salem Radio Network. Most recently, he has authored Imagine! A God-Blessed America, and Real Homeland Security: The America God Will Bless (Broadman & Holman Publishers), and is also Executive Editor of Faith & Family Values, a national magazine.