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Brown Burnett wrote a new blog post: Burnett: Memphis church steeples inspire book 6 months ago
By Brown Burnett Special to The Commercial Appeal Lou Martin looks forward to the red lights, particularly the light at the corner of Walnut Grove and Mendenhall. That’s where she can see Mullins United Methodist Church and one of the city’s most interesting and visible bell towers. “When I see the tower on that church, I always [...]
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Brown Burnett wrote a new blog post: Burnett: Jehovah’s Witnesses set record straight 8 months, 2 weeks ago
By Brown Burnett Special to The Commercial Appeal More than 130,000,000 Americans voted in the 2008 Presidential election. The 1,100,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses in the U.S. did not. “We take the neutral stand in politics,” said Perry Alton, a congregation “brother” in Memphis. “We believe that men don’t have the answers to the world’s problems.…[Read more]
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Brown Burnett wrote a new blog post: Burnett: Faith journey leads to music school 9 months ago
By Brown Burnett Special to The Commercial Appeal You can’t miss it. As you drive by 200 Madison, you’ll see a gleaming, slanted glass wall. It’s not a greenhouse, and it’s no longer the historic C&I bank building. Visible Music College has occupied that space for a year, and what began as a vision is now a [...]
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Brown Burnett wrote a new blog post: Brown Burnett: Life Church keeps growing, believing 1 year, 1 month ago
In the early 1990s, John Siebeling and his wife, Leslie, were content being missionaries in Kenya. The couple had moved to Africa from Baton Rouge, La., to work with a friend and mentor at the Nairobi Lighthouse Church. Siebeling had recently graduated from LSU with a history degree and was fresh out of the Ministers [...]
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Brown Burnett wrote a new blog post: Brown Burnett: Churches without walls free to serve 1 year, 3 months ago
It’s 11 a.m. on an unseasonably warm and wet Sunday in a Midtown Memphis entertainment venue known for its late hours and raucous music scene. Young mothers with babies scurry around as young fathers carrying diaper bags and other baby “equipment” struggle to keep up. A five-piece band begins playing and everyone hurries to find a [...] -
Brown Burnett wrote a new blog post: Brown Burnett: Meeting orphans’ critical needs 1 year, 5 months ago
“I’m back here … behind the building … see me waving my arms?” And there was Wayne Sneed, standing in the back parking lot of a Cordova office building, directing a GPS-challenged reporter to the offices of Orphanos, the Christian foundation Sneed established in 1997 to help children, particularly orphans, throughout the world. It is embarrassing [...] -
Brown Burnett wrote a new blog post: Brown Burnett: Different paths to recovery 1 year, 7 months ago
“Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection with complete abandon. Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery.” — “Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book,” page 59 On a warm October evening, more than 100 hungry souls are filling Jacob’s Well, a recovery ministry that [...] -
Brown Burnett wrote a new blog post: Burnett: Social media creating digital disciples 1 year, 8 months ago
When Pastor Earle J. Fisher wants to reach out to his congregation during the work week, he doesn’t call a meeting or make a call. He tweets: “What can the righteous do today? What WILL the righteous do today?” Fisher, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Whitehaven, says he’s gotten as many as 100 responses [...]
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Brown Burnett wrote a new blog post: Brown Burnett: Gospel journey of an ‘old soul’ 1 year, 11 months ago
Before Darrel Petties sits down at the piano in Young Avenue Studios, he takes a few second to look at the keys, as if he’s preparing to be transported. The 26-year-old singer, choir leader and pastor with a small white streak in his close-cropped hair sits down and strokes a series of minor chords. “ ‘Major’ [...]
