by Jan Turrentine | Feb 13, 2004 | Opinion
We’ll turn your house into a home, the slick TV commercial for a national furniture store chain promises. The concept is simple: fill your house with furniture from this store, and your house will become a warm, happy, inviting place where children get along,...
by Jan Turrentine | Feb 6, 2004 | Opinion
Lawmakers on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill stood for the Rev. Rosemary Brown to offer a quick invocation and open a recent session. She told them to sit down. She then delivered, in powerful and prophetic style, a sermon on doing the right thing. Brown’s homily...
by Jan Turrentine | Jan 30, 2004 | Opinion
Thirty-five American Baptist pastors and other ministerial leaders are one step closer to better physical, spiritual and emotional well-being, thanks to “wellness grants” they received in late 2003. The grants grew out of their denomination’s...
by Jan Turrentine | Jan 23, 2004 | Opinion
Enron’s Andrew and Lea Fastow did it. Pete Rose did it, but he’s sorry (sort of), although he continues to engage in a form of it “recreationally.” Kobe Bryant claims he didn’t do it, but he did do something else he shouldn’t have....
by Jan Turrentine | Jan 16, 2004 | Opinion
The single greatest worship experience he ever had, Gordon MacDonald says, occurred after the benediction had been pronounced and people were actually leaving the building. It was 1976, and MacDonald, now editor at large of Leadership Journal, had attended the...
