by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 18, 2014 | Opinion
This little guy (or girl) is a bandit who steals from the birds. Or, you could consider him a user, who only comes to visit when he needs something. You could think of him as an opportunist, who keeps his eyes open for things that can be turned to his advantage. On...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 13, 2014 | Opinion
When Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote “With a Little Help from My Friends,” they did it so Ringo could sing the lead on one of the songs from the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” I don’t know if their main motivation was...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 8, 2014 | Opinion
… or up and down. Take a hike in the mountains and you run into metaphors everywhere you turn. Take Tallulah Gorge, for example, on the edge of the Appalachians in northeastern Georgia. The gorge is a two-mile long canyon carved out over millions of years by the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 2, 2014 | Opinion
Remember “The Little Shop of Horrors,” an off-broadway play and movie in which a florist’s assistant named Seymour crosses a Venus Fly Trap with a butterwort plant and gets a hybrid so large that it starts eating people? He named it Audrey, Jr.,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 31, 2014 | Opinion
The Baptist Today website, newly remodeled less than a year ago, has some new features that many readers have yet to discover, so I want to point out two of them. The first is a “Weekly Photo,” a picture of the week submitted by one of our readers....
