by John D. Pierce | Jun 16, 2008 | Opinion
Alma Hunt died Saturday night at age 98. The longtime Woman’s Missionary Union leader was considered a great friend to missionaries and an advocate for racial and gender equality. Her successor, Carolyn Weatherford Crumpler, once described Ms. Hunt as “a...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 14, 2008 | Opinion
CNN’s witty reporter Jeanne Moos — equipped with a stopwatch — showed an partial (mercifully) video clip of a question-and-answer exchange from a John McCain Town Hall meeting.The audience participant — identified as David Wheeler — rambled on for about three...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 12, 2008 | Opinion
Much has changed as a result of the Fundamentalist takeover the Southern Baptist Convention that began nearly three decades ago. But one thing has been consistent for a long, long time.During the SBC annual meeting, anybody can — and often will — go to an open...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 4, 2008 | Opinion
Longtime Baptist campus minister Marshall Kerlin is a man of numbers. On July 31 he will turn 56 years old. Add to that 29 years with the Georgia Baptist Convention and he qualifies for retirement benefits.So on Aug. 1, in the words of former Braves announcer Ernie...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 2, 2008 | Opinion
His name is not as widely familiar as Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, Joseph Lowery, John Lewis and Andrew Young. But in the struggle for civil rights — especially in Birmingham, Ala. — no one played a bigger role and few paid a higher price than the...
