by John D. Pierce | Mar 13, 2010 | Opinion
Amassing an impressive personal library was an outward mark of professional achievement and intellectual pursuit during the era when I left school for work. A book was considered a treasure; a room full of them was a treasury of (potential) knowledge.When entering...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 11, 2010 | Opinion
In various ways, we have heard it said: “Today’s heresy is often tomorrow’s dogma.” What seems so certain today can seem so certainly wrong down the road. It is easy to forget how much of our thinking has changed over the years.That is why our culturally-influenced...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 9, 2010 | Opinion
Shock. That was my response when a mid-February email from a former Baylor regent arrived with the news that well-known special prosecutor Kenneth Starr had been tapped as the next president of the university in Waco, Texas. Reading it a second time, it still appeared...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 6, 2010 | Opinion
Radio personalities Randy and Spiff, on Atlanta’s Oldies 106.7, helped me endure the metro traffic woes earlier this week with a bit about things that are disappearing. Callers came up with all kinds of things like printed photos, daily newspapers, landline and...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 3, 2010 | Opinion
TMI — short for “too much information” — is often used when someone offers more personal details than the listener wants to hear. But it can apply to other areas of communication as well.Amid the busy publishing cycle this week I am taking moments here and there to...
