by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 8, 2014 | Opinion
Forty-eight friends and supporters of the Baptists Today news journal are touring Israel and the West Bank for the next few days, enjoying the wonders of the land as well as the joy of making new friends. Some greeted the morning by watching the sun rise over the Sea...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 24, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Our editorial staff is an ignorant bunch. Fortunately, someone with far superior knowledge picked up a copy of our monthly publication recently — and not only read it, but warned us of the embedded dangers associated with our wayward thinking. One...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 8, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce While pounding the payment this afternoon I came upon a rare and wondrous sight: a pick-up football game. In the yard. Without uniforms. No helicopter parents telling the kids what they should or shouldn’t have done on the last play. No constraints of a...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 11, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Several years ago my phone rang and it was Truett Cathy. He was very unhappy. The state of Georgia, he felt, was keeping at-risk children in bad situations and making it more difficult for him to get them into the secure, loving foster homes that he...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 9, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Friday morning’s breakfast was the same as usual — egg and cheese on a whole grain bagel and hazelnut coffee — but different. Sitting in Panera Bread in Chattanooga, I was contemplating the previous evening’s gathering of family and friends and the...