by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 10, 2009 | Opinion
Was the invention of the birth control pill a good thing or a bad thing? Most people, I suspect, have never considered the options. In a world of limited resources that continues to be threatened by overpopulation, there are good arguments for seeing the invention of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 9, 2009 | Opinion
A FoxNews.com report tells us that Randall Price, director of the “Center for Judaic Studies” at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., is trying to raise $60,000 so he can uncover Noah’s ark atop Mt. Ararat.Charging high fees to fundamentalist...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 4, 2009 | Opinion
She inherited the old stone jar from an aunt and didn’t know what else to do with it, so she put it in the yard as a garden ornament. After 20 years, however, she decided to clean it up and have it appraised.It turns out that the unidentified woman, from the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 2, 2009 | Opinion
What’s the easiest way for a university to come up with a good written policy on plagiarism?You plagiarize someone else’s statement.Hard to believe, but true.I first saw the story in the online Chronicle of Higher Education last Thursday, but it’s...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 30, 2009 | Opinion
Birmingham, Alabama will play host this weekend to the first of several regional meetings inspired by the 2008 New Baptist Covenant celebration, a multi-racial and multi-cultural effort to celebrate Baptist ideals and explore ways in which diverse groups can work...
