Land was the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, from 1988 to 2013. He then served as the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 2013 to 2021. He is now the executive editor of The Christian Post, the "nation's most comprehensive Christian news website."

Those of us who opposed President George W. Bush's unjust, immoral, undeclared, senseless, unnecessary, offensive, and evil war in Iraq—a war that saw tens of thousands of American soldiers die in vain and for a lie, suffer traumatic brain injuries, lose limbs or testicles, have PTSD, or commit suicide—remember Land as the primary author of the "Land Letter" in support of the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. The open letter addressed to President Bush stated:

We believe that your policies concerning the ongoing international terrorist campaign against America are both right and just. Specifically, we believe that your stated policies concerning Saddam Hussein and his headlong pursuit and development of biochemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction are prudent and fall well within the time-honored criteria of just war theory as developed by Christian theologians in the late fourth and early fifth centuries A.D.

The letter was also signed by Chuck Colson (founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries), Bill Bright (founder of Campus Crusade for Christ), D. James Kennedy (pastor and president of Coral Ridge Ministries), and Carl D. Herbster (president of the American Association of Christian Schools). Colson, Bright, and Kennedy are now deceased. Herbster is now the leader of AdvanceUSA, a Christian group that advocates for conservative causes.

Land is now saying the same things about the war in Iran as he said about the war in Iraq over twenty years ago. Since he is now about 80 years old, to make it easier on himself, he should just take all of his old articles in support of the war in Iraq and substitute the word Iran for every occurrence of Iraq.

Land's latest perversion of just war theory is found in his recent article in support of the war in Iran, "Is Operation Epic Fury a Just Cause?"

Before invoking his unjust war theory in defense of the United States attacking Iran, Land introduces his article thusly:

President Trump has launched Operation EPIC Fury against the ultra-terrorist cabal that has been operating the Islamic terrorist state controlling the country of Iran since 1979. Since that date, they have been fomenting terror and revolution throughout the Middle East and the world.