by Tony W. Cartledge | May 14, 2017 | Opinion
A weary congregation of 51 folks traveling with this year’s Campbell University Divinity School/Nurturing Faith Experiences tour arrived in Tel Aviv Sunday morning after a variety of connections and an uneventful but long overnight flight from Newark. We arrived with...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 7, 2017 | Opinion
Understanding the past can sometimes come through written documents, but unlike our modern culture in which technology enables us to record (and broadcast) every moment we consider significant, the vast majority of ancient history was unrecorded. Here are a few...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 17, 2017 | Opinion
Back in 2011, I had the joy of taking participants on the Campbell University Divinity School’s bi-annual trip to Israel and the West Bank to spend a few hours volunteering with the Temple Mount Sifting Project, a salvage operation in which volunteers sift...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 3, 2017 | Opinion
Archaeologists in the southernmost stretch of the Wadi Arabah recently uncovered a surprising find — clods of 3,000-year-old donkey dung in an amazing state of preservation. The ancient ordure was found piled against the inside of a fortified wall near the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 1, 2017 | Opinion
“Tweet others as you would like to be tweeted” sparked one of countless smiles shared by participants gathered for the Annual Gathering of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina (CBFNC), meeting at First Baptist Church of Hickory, NC....
