by John D. Pierce | Nov 17, 2020 | Opinion
“By some amazing but vastly creative spiritual insight the slave undertook the redemption of a religion that the master had profaned in his midst.” That insightful quote by Howard Thurman popped up again recently in Jennifer Butler’s new book, Who Stole My Bible? It...
by Monty Self | Sep 24, 2020 | Opinion
A whistleblower complaint was filed against immigration officials at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, according to a Sept. 14 Associated Press report. Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at the facility, asserts in the complaint that women were receiving...
by Starlette Thomas | May 11, 2020 | Opinion
Justice isn’t blind; the justice system willingly turns a blind eye. Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, but Tom Durden, the district attorney didn’t request a formal investigation until May 5. On May 6, the Kingsland Office began...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 1, 2020 | News
For the first time in its storied history, First Baptist Church of Gainesville, Georgia, called a pastor and hardly anyone showed up. Jeremy Shoulta, who accepted the call to become pastor of the congregation founded in 1837, was introduced last week in a video posted...
by Aaron Weaver | Feb 25, 2014 | Opinion
Baptist ethicist Robert Parham caught my attention with an editorial following the Aurora, Colo., mass shooting on July 20, 2012. His observation that few faith leaders were willing to address an underlying issue at the heart of this tragedy – America’s gun...
