by Tony W. Cartledge | May 12, 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 11, 2010 | Opinion
Whenever I’m in the vicinity of West Jefferson, N.C., Holy Trinity Church in nearby Glendale Springs draws me like a spiritual lodestone. The tiny Episcopal church was built in 1901, closed in 1946 and reopened in 1980 after a visionary pastor named Faulton...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 10, 2010 | Opinion
The Book of Job has long been one of my favorite biblical texts. J. Gerald Janzen admires the book even more: he published a commentary on Job in the Interpretation series in 1985, but didn’t stop studying and contemplating the book. Not long ago, he published a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 6, 2010 | Opinion
It was 7:40 a.m., sitting at a stoplight in Lillington, on my way to the office at Campbell University Divinity School where a pile of papers waited for me to grade them. My Prius is a small hatchback, so when a red Chevrolet compact rolled to a stop not too far from...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 5, 2010 | Opinion
When the Southern Baptist Convention’s “Great Commission Task Force” revealed a draft of its recommendations to the SBC Executive Committee in February, it sounded so preachy that my comments on it were entitled “Great Commission...
