by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 26, 2014 | Opinion
Fifty years ago, Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, NC, ordained Addie Davis, the first woman in Southern Baptist life to be so recognized. About 400 participants celebrated that anniversary as Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM) met June 25 at First Baptist Church...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 24, 2014 | Opinion
I have always liked Simon & Garfunkel’s version of the old English ballad “Scarborough Fair,” but have never understood what “parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme” have to do with going to a fair, unless the gathering features...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 18, 2014 | Opinion
With a boatload of writing projects staring me in the face, I got up early this morning and … went blackberry picking. Sometimes that’s just what has to be done, or what begs to be done. When there’s a two-acre patch of wild blackberries just a few...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 13, 2014 | Opinion
Hypocrisy and willful blindness make a bad mix, especially in North Carolina budget writing. The Republican dominated legislature, which has run roughshod over the state’s former progressive reputation for the past two years, has been searching for ways to make...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 10, 2014 | Opinion
My son Samuel graduated from high school this week, and one of his final projects for Drafting 3/Engineering was the construction of a Rube Goldberg machine. For folks who aren’t old enough to remember, Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist, inventor, and artist who...
