by John D. Pierce | Jul 20, 2021 | Opinion>Christian Nationalism|Jesus Worldview Initiative
I’ve grown tired of those who claim to be more patriotic than the rest of us while working to destroy democracy – or more Christian while largely ignoring everything Jesus said and did. Faithfulness takes more than laying claims to titles, and then redefining and...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 13, 2021 | Opinion
To borrow a good line from Paul, writing to early Christians who struggled with their identity and relationships, “Don’t think of yourself more highly than you should” (Romans 12:3). Modern psychologists did not invent the idea of decentering oneself; it is the...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 6, 2021 | Opinion
Professor Bill Hoyt, chair of the department of religion and philosophy, returned what we students of old called “term papers” – pecked out on a typewriter and smeared with the brushed-on, corrective fluid branded as Wite-Out. It was my first research paper in an...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 29, 2021 | Opinion
There was a time, a few decades ago, when a woman being called to the pastorate of a church with historical connections to Southern Baptists was so rare (sadly) and such a big deal (for good reasons) that it created major headlines. In each case, it seems, I knew the...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 24, 2021 | News
Colonel Leah Botona Boling was notified on June 21 that she has been selected to serve as the director of the Air National Guard Chaplain Corps. “It’s still hard for me to believe I got the job,” said Boling, in a phone interview with Good Faith Media, “but I’m truly...
