by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 7, 2010 | Opinion
It’s just not right, but it happens all the time.Yesterday I stopped at Wal-Mart to buy a few needed items. As I left the check-out counter for the exit, I walked behind a dark-complexioned young man wearing a soccer jersey emblazoned with the colors and logos...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 5, 2010 | Opinion
So, it’s a scorching July day, and I’m sweating through blue jeans and boots and a long-sleeved denim shirt. Why?Because it’s blackberry season, that’s why.Blackberries are a treasure for cobbler-holics, but they don’t come without cost....
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 2, 2010 | Opinion
It’s hard to approach the July 4 holiday without musing on the subject of freedom. I like to recall freedom songs, for example, whether patriotic or popular, religious or related to the Civil Rights movement. I like to remember powerful speeches in defense of freedom,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 30, 2010 | Opinion
Only with great difficulty, at least with regard to touchy subjects such as homosexuality. On June 25, during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s (CBF) General Assembly in Charlotte, I was one of more than 300 people who packed into a conference room that promised “A...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 28, 2010 | Opinion
The spring 2010 issue of Duke Divinity School’s Divinity Magazine contains an interesting report about clergy health (p. 4). Research from a United Methodist Church (UMC) Clergy Health Initiative suggests that UMC clergy in North Carolina suffer from more...
