by John D. Pierce | Sep 27, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce ATLANTA— “It was the church that made us who we were,” said Albert Paul Brinson, standing in the historic sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church, that he attended as a youth and later served as associate minister to co-pastors Martin Luther King Sr....
by John D. Pierce | Sep 27, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce One Saturday afternoon a few years ago I dropped into Rembrandt’s Coffee House in the lovely Bluff View Arts District of Chattanooga. Few others were there at the time. But just moments later the soft music and slow pace were interrupted by the...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 26, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce During my formative years, sin was pretty easy to identify if not avoid. Sin was playing poker, drinking beer, missing a church service (without going to another on vacation and bringing a bulletin for proof), holding baseball practice on Wednesday...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 19, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Sometimes we good church people like to avoid confronting our corporate failures. We gloss over the racism and sexism at the historical core of American Christianity, particularly in the South We don’t want to face the ways we err — hoping no one...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 19, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Had Jesus lived on earth at a much later time his poetic and revealing Beatitudes (in Matthew 5) might have been released under the title “Greatest Hits.” He opened what is called the Sermon on the Mount with these blessings that provide a better...
