by John D. Pierce | Oct 24, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce Naysayers seem to be evenly distributed. You can find at least one in about every organization (especially churches) and community. They like to speak first and often — as well as work behind the scenes. Their modus operandi is: “I’m...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 19, 2011 | Opinion
Photo taken somewhere in Oxford in 2005. Could find no photos of wizards or vampires in my collection. By John Pierce Fantasy is a genre of books and movies that has never registered with me. Now before some of you cook up a killer potion or cut off my head with a...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 14, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce If you haven’t heard, liberalism always creeps. It crept into my otherwise staid Southern Baptist Church experience when someone showed up with a copy of Good News for Modern Man in the late ’60s. The somewhat familiar language (there were...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 12, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce One distinct memory from my entry into home ownership in the early ‘80s is of visiting a building supply company in the Atlanta suburbs. There would be two guys in golf shirts sitting on stools behind a center counter. Because they catered to...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 4, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce My freshman daughter sent a text yesterday as she was making her way across the expansive University of Georgia campus. The Gideons were everywhere, she said, handing out copies of the New Testament. “Is that legal on a public university...