by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 16, 2008 | Opinion
There are folks, you may or may not know, who make it their business to translate things into a written language for apes. Instead of words, the apes recognize and “read” lexigrams — picture symbols for words or concepts — that they have been...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 14, 2008 | Opinion
Permit me, please, some time to grieve. My denominational family home of almost 30 years isn’t home any more. The locks haven’t been changed, but the message on the welcome mat outside the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) has been changed...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 12, 2008 | Opinion
Encouraged to “pull out a can of spinach” and “put an end” to toleration of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), messengers to the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) annual session pulled out their ballots and approved a new budget structure that...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 12, 2008 | Opinion
During a fellowship dinner sponsored by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, Wingate University president Jerry McGee took a cue from Walter Shurden’s famous analysis of Baptist life’s “Four Fragile Freedoms” by suggesting that Baptist Higher Education...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 10, 2008 | Opinion
Books and tourist town sideshows produced by Ripley’s “Believe It … Or Not” have drawn in the incredulous for years, featuring attractions that seem too weird, crazy, or otherwise impossible to believe.I haven’t needed a ticket to view...
