by John D. Pierce | Nov 1, 2007 | Opinion
Eighty-year-old country singer Porter Wagoner died last Sunday, Oct.28. Though he performed on the Grand Old Opry for decades and had 29 top-ten records, Wagoner never achieved the star status of others like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and George Jones.In fact, he was...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 30, 2007 | Opinion
Morning shows were abuzz with the recent report that a survey revealed many more Americans could name the ingredients in a McDonald’s Big Mac than could recite the Ten Commandments. Clearly, the implication is that American society is more interested in the...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 27, 2007 | Opinion
My journalistic scope has its limits. There are more books offered than I can read or care to review. More story ideas are tossed my way than I have time to explore.Likewise, the daily “interview opportunities” promoted by publicists are wide-ranging and more numerous...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 25, 2007 | Opinion
When the Southern Baptist Convention controversy was in full swing in the early 1980s, I was doing campus ministry in Marietta, Ga. The local newspaper, The Marietta Daily Journal, did a news story featuring two prominent pastors — Nelson Price of Roswell Street...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 23, 2007 | Opinion
Those of us raised on flannelgraph Christian education recall the essence of most Bible lessons we learned as kids: The Bible character — unless a bad-guy pagan like Goliath or Herod — was good and faithful, and received God’s blessing. Therefore, we should do...
