by John D. Pierce | Jan 12, 2013 | Opinion
By John Pierce Will Campbell spent some time at Mercer University in 1995 as writer-in-residence. So I drove down from Atlanta to sit in on a presentation that was mostly readings from two of his books, Brother to a Dragonfly and The Stem of Jesse. He also pulled out...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 10, 2013 | Opinion
By John Pierce News this morning that Dr. Wallace C. McGill had reached the end of his earthly journey at age 84 brought both a heaviness of heart and that wonderfully strange kind of lightness. There was grief, knowing how much he was loved and the deep void that he...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 21, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce Jennifer Harris Dault received her Master of Divinity degree from Central Baptist Theological Seminary a week and a half after her graduating class — in a bit more casual setting. Car trouble prevented Jennifer and her husband Allyn from...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 18, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce At age 5, our daughter Abigail noticed the varied personifications of Santa spread among the malls and other venues of metro Atlanta. She was unconvinced of his omnipresence — and was suspicous that not everything was on the up-and-up. Recently I...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 13, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce Thanks to satellite radio Morning Joe travels with me. Recently, the Baptist-raised, Catholic-educated and often irreverent Joe Scarborough was gushing over the Rev. Tim Keller and his new book, Every Good Endeavor. Usually it’s unwise to...
