by John D. Pierce | Sep 19, 2009 | Opinion
My short life as a Yankee began when Alamo “upgraded” me to a Pontiac Vibe at the Richmond airport this week. It went like this:Rental car clerk: “You reserved an economy car. Is that still OK?”Me: “Yes.”Rental car clerk (softly...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 17, 2009 | Opinion
The list of casualties from the Fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention — now 30 years in the making — is long and growing. Yet many good church people continue to ignore this reality.Jerry Rankin’s announcement that he is retiring next year...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 15, 2009 | Opinion
Pat Terry threw The Beatles’ “Nowhere Man” into the mix of his original songs during a coffeehouse concert in Macon on Sunday evening. He told of catching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 and thinking: “Now that’s what...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 12, 2009 | Opinion
Next weekend former students of the late LSU campus minister Frank Horton will return to Baton Rouge to celebrate his influential life. His son-in-law Bob Guffey (pastor of First Baptist Church of Conway, S.C.) describes the event as an “ultimate...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 10, 2009 | Opinion
While young tennis phenom Melanie Oudin lost soundly in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open late yesterday, her stay was far beyond anyone’s expectations. If indicated by nothing else, her well-publicized, mid-tournament change of hotels told the story.Details...
