by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 22, 2010 | Opinion
I ran across a few stories this week that aren’t especially about Christmas, but caught my eye nonetheless. An e-mail from David George, who heads the WMU Foundation, announced that someone has donated half of a house to the Woman’s Missionary Union. The...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 20, 2010 | Opinion
Good morning, Blog. Have a good weekend? Not bad. Yourself? Terrific. Hey, I haven’t thought to ask yet: how do you like the new digs on BT’s renovated website? You’re right, Mr. Sensitive. You haven’t asked. Nor did you bother asking if I ever...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 17, 2010 | Opinion
In some Advent traditions, the fourth Sunday of Advent focuses on love. In others, it centers on salvation. The two themes are not incompatible. It is because of God’s love that our salvation is possible. It is because we have experienced salvation that we can...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 15, 2010 | Opinion
Does your church make a big deal of Christmas? Celebrate Advent? Fill shoe boxes? Pull out all the stops in promoting an offering for missions? When I was a boy, Christmas was a time for the choir to learn and perform a new cantata, often by John W. Peterson (whose...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 13, 2010 | Opinion
Perhaps you’ve heard the term “flash mob.” It’s what happens when a group of people, often through communications on a social media website, gather in a public place and perform some sort of unusual or unexpected act for a short time, then they...
