by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 31, 2011 | Opinion
A couple of weeks ago I commented on how crazy some people get over saving money with coupons. I noted that the coupons I get are rarely for things that I buy, at least very often. But, I still look through them. This past Sunday, my newspaper included the September...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 29, 2011 | Opinion
Raleigh’s News & Observer reported recently on the strange results of a project conducted by scientists at Duke University. Three researchers at a social event began to wonder if they could determine how religion affects the brain. As a preliminary approach,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 26, 2011 | Opinion
Did the human race really start with two people, one made from clay and the other from bone, as the creation story in Genesis 2 suggests? Was the story designed to portray an accurate history of creation, or to use metaphor in testifying to the belief that humans have...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 24, 2011 | Opinion
I suspect a lot of people were humming Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On” or Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up” yesterday when an earthquake centered 40 miles northwest of Richmond rattled its way up and down the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 22, 2011 | Opinion
A few years back, folks who keep up with archaeology in the Middle East began to hear of a surprising find somewhere in the hills of Galilee — a group of codices made of lead. “Codices” is plural for “codex,” a name given to the earliest...
