by John D. Pierce | Mar 23, 2010 | Opinion
The late music educator Dr. Lee Norris Mackey of Chatta- nooga, Tenn., received a grant in the 1980s to conduct a study that revealed a decline in the performance of Negro spirituals. As a result he co-founded the Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 20, 2010 | Opinion
While sipping hazelnut coffee at Panera Bread Company in Winston-Salem, N.C., this morning, I watched a pair of Canada geese stroll across the empty parking lot of the adjacent Fuddrucker’s restaurant. Years earlier, before the mass migration of the majestic birds...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 18, 2010 | Opinion
The late Baptist statesman Louie D. Newton’s name is on the chapel at the Georgia Baptist Convention’s suburban Atlanta headquarters. Yet the in-town church where he was famously pastor is apparently headed for exclusion by and from the state’s...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 16, 2010 | Opinion
Most Americans watch TV just before going to sleep. That is the unsurprising conclusion out of a recent survey by the National Sleep Foundation. The survey focused on differing bedtime behaviors according to ethnicity.Three-quarters of African Americans surveyed said...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 15, 2010 | Opinion
By John PierceBaptists TodayATLANTA — Bruce Gourley, a historian, Internet innovator and online editor for Baptists Today, will become executive director of the Baptist History and Heritage Society (BH&HS) on April 1. He is the former associate director of Mercer...
