by John D. Pierce | Aug 23, 2010 | Opinion
A guest on CNN this morning said President Barack Obama’s name is a factor in so many Americans’ failure to acknowledge him as a Christian. As has been widely reported recently, only one-third of Americans identified the president’s faith as Christian and 1 in 5,...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 21, 2010 | Opinion
Although I have seen the image of a sankofa many times, it’s meaning had never dawned on me. But in the alumni magazine of Columbia Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian school that let me slip through many years ago, Pam Cottrell noted the mythical West African...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 19, 2010 | Opinion
Clark Pinnock was a controversial theologian who could get strong challenges from colleagues on both his right and left. Pinnock, who died Sunday at age 73, spent some of his teaching years among Baptists.He traveled some theological distances during his career and...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 17, 2010 | Opinion
My meager early Sunday morning exercise was done and coffee in hand when a sleepy-eyed crowd began gathering on Market Street in downtown Chattanooga on Aug. 8. Out of love and obligation these friends and family would soon welcome triathletes to the finish line. The...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 14, 2010 | Opinion
(Or “Why Non-Fundamentalists continue to fund Fundamentalism”)By John PierceTo take advantage of age-related discounts, a retired couple does their weekly grocery shopping every Wednesday morning. The schedule is not all that doesn’t change.The list no...
