by John D. Pierce | Jul 12, 2022 | Opinion
“We’re fakes.” Those were the first words from my mouth as my colleague Mitch Randall and I departed a June 29 conversation in Dallas with Lorenzo Ortiz. We reconnected with Lorenzo to hear him calmly and confidently share with us his recent experience of being...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 5, 2022 | Opinion>Christian Nationalism
Growing up in the tightknit Boynton community near the Georgia-Tennessee border, it seemed that everyone gathered at the local baseball field on the Fourth of July. All day, there was one baseball or softball game after another. Some were serious competitions — at...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 28, 2022 | Opinion
It seems that common courtesy is just not very common. I am not yearning for some romanticized, yesteryear version of politeness that only exists in aging imaginations. I’m talking about the overt, socially acceptable public ugliness that has exploded in recent years....
by John D. Pierce | Jun 21, 2022 | Jesus Worldview Initiative|Opinion
A friend was lamenting the overt racism, loss of truthfulness and the absence of compassion in American society today. Prompting the answer that I knew he knew, I asked: “And from where do these attitudes and actions come?” “Church people,” he said sadly and...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 14, 2022 | Opinion
In my college years, I noticed a church sign promoting an upcoming sermon titled, “A Christian View of Time.” What caught my attention was use of the article “A” rather than “The.” The preacher had enough self-awareness and integrity to acknowledge that he didn’t have...
