by John D. Pierce | Nov 16, 2007 | Opinion
‘Tis the season for Baptist state conventions to meet to approve budgets, elect leaders and draw lines. I’ve not done extensive research into attendance figures, but there seem to be (in most cases) smaller numbers showing up at such events.In Missouri, where the...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 14, 2007 | Opinion
After more than a year of groundwork, we are very pleased to announce that a North Carolina edition of Baptists Today, the national news journal based in Macon, Ga., will be launched in January. Three significant factors make this venture possible.First is the...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 10, 2007 | Opinion
When I returned from covering the 2006 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention — at which Frank Page was the surprise first-ballot choice for president — several friends wanted my take on the gathering. The question was usually phrased something like:...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 8, 2007 | Opinion
Americans fulfill their civic responsibilities in two ways, voting and jury duty, said the court clerk to the pool of potential jurors gathered in a courthouse waiting room on a cool, windy Monday morning last week. This particular gathering of citizens from Bibb...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 3, 2007 | Opinion
The big news out of the Missouri Baptist Convention meeting last week was a major loosening of the stranglehold fundamentalist layman Roger Moran has had on the convention. Moran, the master of guilt by association, has used his Missouri Baptist Laymen’s...
