by John D. Pierce | Oct 20, 2007 | Opinion
A beautiful, new boutique hotel called The Ellis on Peachtree has just opened in downtown Atlanta, across from the Ritz Carlton. I recall walking along famous Peachtree Street in 1994 and noticing a newly erected historical marker in front of the empty building that...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 18, 2007 | Opinion
An updated and expanded version of Mary Kinney Branson’s Spending God’s Money: Extravagance and Misuse in the Name of Ministry is out this month. Originally published in January 2007, the book details the freewheeling spending of Bob Reccord, former president of the...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 16, 2007 | Opinion
On a recent Sunday morning at Highland Hills Baptist Church in Macon, Ga., an ensemble of about two dozen adults performed Celebrate Life! The classic musical by Buryl Red and Ragan Courtney, published in 1972, has amazing staying power.Youth choirs of the ’70s...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 13, 2007 | Opinion
Practicing what we preach is one of the hardest disciplines in life. Often we set the bar higher for others than we are willing to leap ourselves.In some cases, we simply don’t follow the advice we quickly dispense to others. That seems to be the case with...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 9, 2007 | Opinion
Sometimes an email subject line can get your mind to wondering. Such was the case with one sent to me recently by Callie Davis, staff assistant for the Baptist House of Studies at Duke University Divinity School directed by Curtis Freeman.Enclosed were results from a...
