by John D. Pierce | Jan 27, 2009 | Opinion
NEWSGa. Baptist leaders warn of further action against church with female pastor By John PierceBaptists TodayDECATUR, Ga. — In her church newsletter column dated Jan. 23, pastor Julie Pennington-Russell of the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., reported on a Jan. 7...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 27, 2009 | Opinion
Shirley Taylor of Conroe, Texas, has a passion. It surfaced in the Open Letter she sent out recently urging Baptists to rethink the idea of women in church leadership.Not knowing Shirley, I emailed her some questions. (Also, I did not know that Bob Allen of ABP was...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 24, 2009 | Opinion
In a her church newsletter column, pastor Julie Pennington-Russell of the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., reported on an early January visit by representatives of the Georgia Baptist Convention. (I will have a more complete news story early next week.)It was the...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 22, 2009 | Opinion
The soup and salad were just fine, but I chose to have lunch at Applebee’s on Tuesday for two other reasons.I wanted to find a place with televisions and to be among some African Americans. From a recent lunch meeting there, I recalled that young black women...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 20, 2009 | Opinion
When my family moved to Macon, Ga., nine years ago, a friend who had spent several years here told me: “It is everything right about the South and everything wrong about the South.”The same, I’m sure, could be said about other places. But I’ve...
