by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 25, 2015 | Opinion
Israeli authorities have issued a warning to porcupines after a 1400-year-old oil lamp surfaced at the Horbat Siv ancient ruins, a Roman-Byzantine site near Emek Hefer in central Israel. The oil lamp was unearthed by a porcupine in the course of constructing its...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 18, 2015 | Opinion
I don’t often go ten days without posting a fresh blog, but I don’t often have surgery, either. Or complications. At the risk of prompting an OMG TMI! response, I’ll tell the story in brief and see if we can find something to make it worth the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 8, 2015 | Opinion
When thousands of Baptists gather in Durban, South Africa for the 21st Baptist World Congress July 22-26, it will mark the first such meeting ever held on the African continent. Organizers from the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) hope more than 4,000 Baptists from around...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 6, 2015 | Opinion
Corneille Gato Munyamasoko, general secretary of the Association of Baptist Churches in Rwanda, will receive the Baptist World Alliance’s quinquennial Human Rights Award in July, following action by the BWA Executive Committee meeting in Falls Church on March 4....
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 28, 2015 | Opinion
The savage inhumanity of ISIS’s brutal ideologues continued to manifest itself this week as the organization kidnapped hundreds of Christians to be used, abused, and possibly beheaded in a sneering show of radical imbecility that grows from a perverted...