by John D. Pierce | Feb 2, 2015 | Opinion
By John Pierce Fifteen years ago (Feb. 1, 2000) I embarked on a new and different journey as executive editor of Baptists Today, an autonomous, national news journal based in Macon, Ga. It has been a demanding yet rewarding experience. At times, the challenges seemed...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 16, 2015 | Opinion
By John Pierce Recently, Nikolai Novikov has been repeatedly fined, jailed, and restricted in his freedom to travel, according to Forum18. His crime: Holding worship services in West Kazakhstan without government permission. Like Novikov, Maksim Volikov is also a...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 12, 2015 | Opinion
By John Pierce Recently, a college friend drew my attention to an interesting story found in The Toronto Sun back in 2012. A tour group, traveling by bus across Iceland, made a Saturday afternoon stop near a volcanic canyon in the southern highlands. A woman in the...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 3, 2015 | News, Opinion
By John Pierce For many of us, advocacy and support for Christian missions were synonymous with the name Carolyn Weatherford Crumpler. Carolyn, who died yesterday (Jan. 2) at age 84 in Cincinnati, strongly and consistently advocated for the spread of a holistic Gospel...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 24, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Where did we get the idea that Christmas should be perfect? That’s easy to answer: Christmas stories, Christmas songs, Christmas movies, Christmas greeting cards, Martha Stewart. Often we can end up with the false notion that a proper Christmas should...
