by John D. Pierce | Mar 25, 2010 | Opinion
As one who spends a lot of time in his car, I’ve had this recurring dream of getting on the Interstate highway, punching in the desired exit number and sitting back for awhile. An article in the Wall Street Journal last weekend said the idea deserves serious...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 23, 2010 | Opinion
The late music educator Dr. Lee Norris Mackey of Chatta- nooga, Tenn., received a grant in the 1980s to conduct a study that revealed a decline in the performance of Negro spirituals. As a result he co-founded the Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 20, 2010 | Opinion
While sipping hazelnut coffee at Panera Bread Company in Winston-Salem, N.C., this morning, I watched a pair of Canada geese stroll across the empty parking lot of the adjacent Fuddrucker’s restaurant. Years earlier, before the mass migration of the majestic birds...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 18, 2010 | Opinion
The late Baptist statesman Louie D. Newton’s name is on the chapel at the Georgia Baptist Convention’s suburban Atlanta headquarters. Yet the in-town church where he was famously pastor is apparently headed for exclusion by and from the state’s...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 16, 2010 | Opinion
Most Americans watch TV just before going to sleep. That is the unsurprising conclusion out of a recent survey by the National Sleep Foundation. The survey focused on differing bedtime behaviors according to ethnicity.Three-quarters of African Americans surveyed said...
