by John D. Pierce | Oct 27, 2007 | Opinion
My journalistic scope has its limits. There are more books offered than I can read or care to review. More story ideas are tossed my way than I have time to explore.Likewise, the daily “interview opportunities” promoted by publicists are wide-ranging and more numerous...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 25, 2007 | Opinion
When the Southern Baptist Convention controversy was in full swing in the early 1980s, I was doing campus ministry in Marietta, Ga. The local newspaper, The Marietta Daily Journal, did a news story featuring two prominent pastors — Nelson Price of Roswell Street...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 23, 2007 | Opinion
Those of us raised on flannelgraph Christian education recall the essence of most Bible lessons we learned as kids: The Bible character — unless a bad-guy pagan like Goliath or Herod — was good and faithful, and received God’s blessing. Therefore, we should do...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 20, 2007 | Opinion
A beautiful, new boutique hotel called The Ellis on Peachtree has just opened in downtown Atlanta, across from the Ritz Carlton. I recall walking along famous Peachtree Street in 1994 and noticing a newly erected historical marker in front of the empty building that...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 18, 2007 | Opinion
An updated and expanded version of Mary Kinney Branson’s Spending God’s Money: Extravagance and Misuse in the Name of Ministry is out this month. Originally published in January 2007, the book details the freewheeling spending of Bob Reccord, former president of the...
