by John D. Pierce | Dec 9, 2008 | Opinion
Greg Maddux was the greatest pitcher I ever witnessed in person — so I watched him pitch as often as possible. While Maddux and I were both working in Atlanta in the mid-through-late-’90s, my trips to the ballpark were often planned according to his schedule.My...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 6, 2008 | Opinion
Politicians and parasites are sometimes mentioned in the same sentence — but usually not in a literal or positive sense.However, an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells how amazingly close one politician’s efforts have come to eliminating the...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 4, 2008 | Opinion
If this sounds nit-picky or defensive, so be it.Recently I’ve been reading through the excellent, scholarly papers presented this summer at the annual meeting of the Baptist History & Heritage Society and assembled in their Summer/Fall 2008 edition of the...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 2, 2008 | Opinion
If you went to school in the ’70s, loved Jesus, and your parents complained about your hair — then you likely heard the Pat Terry Group perform such groundbreaking Christian music as “Same Sweet Song,” “Meet Me Here” or “I...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 25, 2008 | Opinion
We all have our blind spots. Clarity often comes only from the perspective of hindsight.That’s what leaders of Bob Jones University confessed in apologizing for the independent, fundamentalist Christian school’s past racist policies. A statement on the school’s...
