Cory Barnes

About Cory Barnes

Dr. Cory Barnes is the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shorter University. An alumnus of Shorter University and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, he is a member of Three Rivers Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in Rome, and occasionally serves as an interim pastor for churches in the Rome area.

Posts by Cory Barnes:

November 13 2019

What to make of Kanye West

Cory Barnes Columns Christian hip-hop, conversion, Kanye West, music

Kanye West (with microphone) performs “Nothing’s too hard for God” at one of his Sunday Services with his choir. YOUTUBE/Screen capture

July 23 2019

Is the cross a Christian symbol?

Cory Barnes Since you asked... Christianity, cross, Supreme Court

As ridiculous as the title of this article may seem, the relationship between the cross and Christianity became a hot topic recently because of the Supreme Court case involving the Bladensburg World War I memorial sometimes called the “Peace Cross.” The cross itself was completed in 1925 as a memorial to the 49 men of […]