by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 30, 2008 | Opinion
While executive editor Johnny Pierce takes a few days off, I’ll be posting an extra blog or two. Today I thought I’d point to some important archaeological finds that may not make it into the popular press.In Israel, where Israel has chosen to pound the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 29, 2008 | Opinion
Marley was a dog made famous by journalist John Grogan, who made a tidy living writing columns about his yellow lab’s incorrigible but endearing qualities, and then turned them into a best-selling book called Marley and Me. The book then became a movie, which...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 26, 2008 | Opinion
Spending Christmas evening with my parents brought to mind a simpler time when Christmas was a big deal for children, but not quite the production it often is today. Laptops and iPods were still in the distant future, and the most advanced technology under the tree...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 24, 2008 | Opinion
I noticed something surprising this morning. As I contemplated a bloggy meditation on Mary’s having ridden a donkey the 80 miles or so of dirt roads between Nazareth and Bethlehem, I re-read the story, for perhaps the thousandth time. And what I noticed, because...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 22, 2008 | Opinion
For thoughtbul believers, the Christmas season prompts wonderment as we consider the meaning of God’s self-giving in Christ. So, I thought it an appropriate time to post a review of Christopher Wright’s insightful new book (Zondervan, Jan. 2009), called The God...
