May 22, 2019
by jenniferpuryear
My friend Todd Jones stops in at Bacon today to recommend a novel that is part Downton Abbey, part psychological thriller, deliciously dread-inducing, big-question-asking, AND set in Bora Bora… anyone need a summer read? Bonus: it’s now in paperback!
April 14, 2017
by jenniferpuryear
The empty tomb is stunning, transcendent – also hard to imagine – not impossible. The death and anguish of Good Friday? Not hard. Suffering and death we GET – though that doesn’t mean we don’t ask why. It seems a good time to share a post by Dr. Todd Jones, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, on What Shall We Say? Evil, Suffering and The Crisis of …
July 10, 2014
by jenniferpuryear
Book Title: 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
You can tell when Todd Jones enters the room. All of a sudden, things get livelier. People are more animated and warmer. They’re following his lead. You won’t see many yawns when he’s in the pulpit most Sundays at First Pres! If I could invent a minister from scratch, I’d hope to come up with Todd Jones. Todd was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He …