by John D. Pierce | Jul 28, 2020 | Opinion
Willie Nelson wrote a song called “Three Days,” which Faron Young made into a hit in 1962. It’s a “hurtin’ song” about lost love. “Three days filled with tears and sorrow – yesterday, today and tomorrow. And it does no good to hope these days will end ’cause the same...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 20, 2020 | Opinion
It was December 1986, and my daily joy was to help show some international students around Atlanta during their Christmas break. People around the world tend to associate the city with three things: Coca-Cola, CNN and Martin Luther King Jr. The World of Coke had not...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 14, 2020 | Opinion
As a baby boomer with two daughters – one a millennial, the other Gen Z – no one has to convince me of certain generational trends. And I have observed earlier ones as well, particularly during my campus ministry career. Paying attention to generational tendencies is...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 7, 2020 | Opinion
As word spread of Hardy Clemons’ death on July 1, there was a common refrain: he was “pastor to me.” That identification came from beyond those in congregations Hardy served, which included First Baptist Church of Georgetown, Texas; Second Baptist Church in his...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 1, 2020 | Opinion
The late Grand Ole Opry host Roy Acuff used to tell performers, “Sing the one that got you here.” He knew the Opry crowd wanted to hear the hits and sing along with the familiar words. However, if no one ever sang a new song, there’d be no new hits to become classics....
