by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 19, 2010 | Opinion
During Lent this year, I’m listening to the New Testament via the “You’ve Got the Time” program the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) is promoting. CBF launched the program in January, hoping that at least 500 of its 1,800 affiliated...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 17, 2010 | Opinion
Perhaps you have heard of the Assyrian king Sennacherib, who invaded Judah and besieged Jerusalem in 701 B.C. On a six-sided clay prism inscribed in cuneiform known as “The Annals of Sennacherib,” he claimed to have destroyed 46 fortified cities, taken...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 15, 2010 | Opinion
With a half-finished post about the pothole that ate half the fans at the Daytona 500 saved to my computer, I learned during the morning commute about an even bigger pothole that’s rocking the Catholic church: as Pope Benedict XVI summoned more than two dozen...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 12, 2010 | Opinion
ABP reported Feb. 11 a bit of good news in the ongoing struggle to maintain healthy boundaries between church and state: a special panel has recommended to President Obama that churches wanting to receive federal funding for social ministries should set up a separate...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 10, 2010 | Opinion
For nearly a week, I fought a persistent head and chest cold that dropped my voice by two octaves, when I could use it at all. It was that stuffy-headed, sore-throated, chest-congested, generally miserable feeling that some folks call the “crud.” My late grandmother,...
