by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 25, 2010 | Opinion
“Passionate moderate” may sound like an oxymoron, but a call to greater passion has been a recurring theme at this year’s General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. When the group coalesced as an alternative to the increasingly...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 23, 2010 | Opinion
Can you imagine a competition in which you won $1.2 million, then watched it swim away because of a technicality?Imagine the heartache felt by the captain of the Citation, a fishing boat participating in Morehead City’s Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament. Early in...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 21, 2010 | Opinion
No, this isn’t a commentary on the University of Georgia’s offensive strategy for the upcoming football season. It’s about the four-footed kind, those rambunctious critters that inhabit so many of our houses and some of our hearts.With the pleasant...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 18, 2010 | Opinion
When I was a boy going to church on Sunday nights, one of my favorite activities was called the “Sword Drill,” but it had nothing to do with swords other than the Bible as a metaphor for “the word of the Lord” that is “sharper than any...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 16, 2010 | Opinion
Significant votes as this year’s Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) meeting in Orlando reflected some of the widest discrepancies since the divisive days of the 1980s, suggesting that difficult days lie ahead for the country’s largest Protestant...
