by John D. Pierce | Oct 30, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Jesus was in the business of casting out devils, not creating them out of the very people whom he loved through his life, death and resurrection. So it is telling when those who profess his name today so quickly join political forces to demonize...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 24, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Through his 1965 book, The Christian Agnostic, Leslie Weatherhead taught me to distinguish between rejecting faith and constructively rethinking what I’d been taught about faith. I discovered that often faith and doubt are not opposites but two sides...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 16, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce “What goes around comes around,” says a familiar adage that keeps coming around and around. Old sayings aren’t the only things to depart only to return again and again. There are boomerangs, the McRib sandwich and Brett Favre — to name a few. But, as...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 9, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce My friend Paul Wallace, who writes the insightful “Questions Christians Ask Scientists” column in Nurturing Faith Journal, made an good observation and raised a worthy question on Twitter recently. “I’m unnerved by the quality and quantity of...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 3, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce “Where do your stories come from?” From paying attention, I say. That’s one way to describe the editorial approach we take at Nurturing Faith Journal. We pay attention to what is in the news and what conversations are taking place in churches and...
