by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 16, 2011 | Opinion
Walking the dog on a drizzly morning, and I can’t get Japan off my mind. It’s been nearly a week since a gargantuan earthquake shook northern Japan and a raging tsunami ravaged cities and obliterated fishing villages. No one yet knows how many died, and we...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 14, 2011 | Opinion
The Lenten season always feels like a paradox to me. It is traditionally a time of reflection, of penitence, of mourning for the brokeness of self and the brokenness of the world. Lent happens, however, at a happy time of year, just as lively spring emerges from...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 11, 2011 | Opinion
So, having decided Ash Wednesday morning that I would intentionally look for opportunities to be kind or helpful through the Lenten season, I found various ways to do so, in small ways, through the day. Toward evening, I was confronted with a somewhat different...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 9, 2011 | Opinion
Anyone with a liturgical bone in his or her body, and even many who are without, are aware that today is Ash Wednesday — about as late in the season as it can come. Ash Wednesday ushers us into the season of Lent, a time of reflection and repentance and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 9, 2011 | Opinion
When I entered the University of Georgia as a 17-year-old freshman back in 1969, I was assigned a small basket in a huge locker room that served the physical education department. I also paid for and was issued a sturdy combination lock to keep my regulation UGA...
