by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 2, 2014 | Opinion
I don’t mind admitting mistakes, and my last post contained (gasp!) two big ones. In an attempt to take a light-hearted look at our penchant for giving a name to every day during the week of Thanksgiving, I suggested that naming rights were still available for...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 29, 2014 | Opinion
It occurred to me that the week of Thanksgiving has become the week of names. It begins two days before with “Giving Tuesday,” a relatively recent invention promoted by charities and other non-profits as a way to raise funds while people are in a thankful...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 25, 2014 | Opinion
It took a 90-year-old man to breathe some real excitement into the typically staid meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion (SBL/AAR) going on in San Diego. That happens when the nonagenarian is former president Jimmy Carter....
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 23, 2014 | Opinion
Hearing 15 scholars read academic papers over the course of 9 1/2 hours — and then listening (or joining in) as their colleagues respond — can make for a happy day: especially when periodic breaks can be spent on the San Diego waterfront. On the first full...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 22, 2014 | Opinion
If you want to have a large convention in late November, when much of the nation is falling to the siege of winter, San Diego is the place to do it. Thousands of academics in the fields of religion and Bible have gathered here for the annual meetings of the Society of...
