by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 25, 2017 | Opinion
Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) has been about missions from the beginning, and that has not changed. As always, missions was at the forefront as more than 600 North Carolina Baptist women and other guests gathered at First Baptist Church of Greensboro March...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 18, 2017 | Opinion
Can anything you do at church be more fun than combining a mission project to feed others with barbecue to feed the volunteers? I was proud of my home church — Woodhaven Baptist in Cary/Apex — and lucky enough to be in town this weekend when those two...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 12, 2017 | Opinion
Attending some mid-year committee meetings of the Baptist World Alliance reminded me of how lucky I am to be a native English speaker — and also how far behind much of the world that puts me. Representatives from a slew of countries were there: at a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 7, 2017 | Opinion
A memorable chorus from Cabaret holds that “Money makes the world go round, the world go round, the world go round — money makes the world go round, it makes the world go round.” The song is not only repetitive, but wrong: the earth was spinning...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 3, 2017 | Opinion
Can militants associated with the so-called Islamic State be given credit for anything good? Not one thing, most of us would say. Still, their misguided and destructive campaign to blot out priceless monuments from antiquity because they were associated with the...
