by John D. Pierce | Jan 10, 2009 | Opinion
Daniel Burke of Religion News Service has a good piece on the churchgoing habits of U.S. presidents and the pressure on the incoming First Family to find a church home. (I’ll link the article when it appears on the Baptists Today website later today.)He notes...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 8, 2009 | Opinion
Americans always feel somewhat battered after a long, intense, over-covered, bitter presidential campaign.Candidates and their supporters go overboard. They characterize opponents in the worst possible — even alarmist — ways. High emotions can lead quickly to...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 6, 2009 | Opinion
Then U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell spoke at my graduation from Berry College in the spring of 1978. I don’t recall his message but his strong, clear Southern voice was pleasing to the ear.Judge Bell died yesterday morning at age 90. He will be buried in...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 27, 2008 | Opinion
The late sportscaster Skip Carey had the same response to any question involving speculation about the outcome of a yet-to-occur competition: “That’s why they play the game.”Yet speculation is not soothsaying (that suggests one can see into the...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 24, 2008 | Opinion
“Come to Bethlehem and seeChrist Whose birth the angels sing;Come, adore on bended knee,Christ the Lord, the newborn King.”[Art by Rembrandt; words from “Angels We Have Heard on High”] John D. PierceDirector of the Jesus Worldview Initiative at...
