by John D. Pierce | Jul 27, 2021 | Opinion
Revivalism impacted the religious upbringing and inherited faith of many of us in ways we likely didn’t realize. The doctrine, terminology and formulated methods of emotion-driven evangelical evangelism grew out of this frontier phenomenon. Ultimately, the seasonal,...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 20, 2021 | Opinion
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...
