by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 17, 2011 | Opinion
Politics is known for making odd bedfellows, and a current campaign offers a good illustration: the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) is encouraging support for new Environmental Protection Agency regulations calling for lower mercury levels that some members of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 14, 2011 | Opinion
I had already heard a BBC report about how Pakistani police had busted a radically strict Islamic religious school in Karachi where students claimed they were chained and beaten, brainwashed, and pressured to join the Talibani jihad movement. The report appropriately...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 12, 2011 | Opinion
A September survey by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Lifeway Christian Resources shows that Southern Baptists have a more favorable reputation than Mormons and Muslims — but less positive than Methodists and Catholics. The study was done in part to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 9, 2011 | Opinion
I love it. The journal Science reports today on University of Chicago research showing that rats are capable of empathy — or something. The experiment demonstrated that, when two rats were put in a large cage, and one of the rats was confined to a tight...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 7, 2011 | Opinion
Baptists have long cherished the notion of unity in diversity, holding stubbornly to fellowship with others despite significant differences. That’s why so many churches historically aligned with the Southern Baptist Convention, state Baptist conventions, or...
