by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 18, 2012 | Opinion
With the temperature in the mid-60s, I couldn’t resist taking a hike through a nearby nature preserve called Hemlock Bluffs. The name derives, as one might guess, from the hemlock trees that can be found there. Eastern hemlocks (Tsuga canadensis), to be...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 15, 2012 | Opinion
The winter of 2011-12, if it can be called that, seems destined to be one for the record books. The entire lower 48 states are experiencing warmer weather and less snow than usual, while northern areas are colder — Valdez, Alaska has had 10 feet more snow than...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 10, 2012 | Opinion
Last fall I mentioned the immigration case of Nazry (“Naz”) Mustakim, a native of Singapore who lived in the United States with proper documents as a Legal Permanent Resident for nearly 20 years before being taken into custody last March. Before his...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 8, 2012 | Opinion
Yesterday I was listening to Stanley Hauerwas, professor of theological ethics at Duke, as he spoke to a class at Campbell University before delivering the Relgion Department Staley Lecture in the evening. Somewhere in the course of describing the difference between a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 6, 2012 | Opinion
What’s the biggest Sunday of the year for your church? I posed that question to the “Life and Work of the Minister” class I’m teaching this semester, and thought I’d pass on some of the results. The class consists of 28 students from a...
