by Tony W. Cartledge | May 21, 2010 | Opinion
What a day … what encouraging news the papers contain (like progress toward financial reform) seems overwhelmed by stories that are plainly bad or troublesome news. The stock market sank as news of economic troubles in Europe sank in. The gusher in the Gulf...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 19, 2010 | Opinion
Simon Peter would be hopping mad. James and John, the thunderous sons of Zebedee, would be breathing fire. Andrew, perhaps, might be trying in vain to calm their troubled waters: fishing has been banned in the Sea of Galilee. Catch a boat load of fish there now and it...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 17, 2010 | Opinion
Religion News Service recently posted a surprising story suggesting that there’s a glut of available ministers. That goes against popular wisdom for the past few years, which has argued that there’s an impending shortage of ministers. What’s that...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 17, 2010 | Opinion
With graduation days coming to an end, lots of advice has been passed around. Some of it came from graduation speakers who may have been famous or not so famous, but who sought to pass on some words of timely wisdom — and in such a way that students who have no...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 14, 2010 | Opinion
The notion that history can be revised has been around since at least the second generation of history writers. Mesopotamian kings commonly published their own versions of history to accent their own accomplishments. New Egyptian rulers went so far as to reshape...
