by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 8, 2008 | Opinion
A rare exhibit of fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls continues to attract visitors to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, and with good reason. Visitors may be surprised, however, to learn that the most impressive aspects of the exhibit have...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 8, 2008 | Opinion
I haven’t commented previously on recent news about a crooked ex-IMB missionary who was able to steal several hundred thousand dollars from customers of an Alabama insurance company after the Southern Baptist International Mission Board chose a cover-up over...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 5, 2008 | Opinion
An old song that I never liked claims that “Happiness runs in a circular motion.” Not so, according to Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard University. He and James Fowler of the University of California recently published an article in...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 3, 2008 | Opinion
You heard it here first: the acclaimed Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences was scheduled to close December 28, but a museum official has told me that the Israel Antiquities Authority has given permission for the exhibit to remain...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 1, 2008 | Opinion
About once every two years, I get to see my hometown football team play ball. That’s how often we go to my parents’ house for Thanksgiving, and the “Lincoln County Red Devils” are inevitably still playing, usually in the third round of the...
