by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 22, 2011 | Opinion
So, it’s Good Friday and I officially have the day off but a blog is due: how does one cope? Easy: by cheating, and just passing on a link to a ridiculously funny video from aish.com that I don’t think has gone viral yet. By this point in Holy Week,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 20, 2011 | Opinion
Prison chaplains could soon be getting the ax in North Carolina, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Like their colleagues in other states, NC lawmakers are faced with a severe budget crunch, and some want to trim $3 million from the budget by eliminating the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 15, 2011 | Opinion
As I was growing up in Southern Baptist churches, and later served as pastor for five of them, at least two things were consistent: Christmas and Easter were marked mainly by huge emphases on missions offerings: the Lottie Moon offering for international missions at...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 13, 2011 | Opinion
Amid all the hoopla over a potential government shutdown in the U.S., a growing nuclear disaster in Japan, and a developing war in Libya, an important Supreme Court ruling on April 4 went almost completely unnoticed. It’s important because the 5-4 decision is a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 11, 2011 | Opinion
After being out of town for the weekend, I took the dog for a walk this morning, and it appeared that the whole neighborhood had turned green while I was gone. All those trees that were nothing but stark branches a few weeks ago, and then covered with buds or blossoms...
