by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 11, 2019 | News
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) stopped a six-year slide in contributions with a 10 percent growth in gifts during 2018. However, General Secretary Elijah Brown cautioned executive committee members gathered March 4-6 in Falls Church, Virginia, that one year’s growth...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 6, 2019 | Opinion
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) stopped a six-year slide in contributions with a ten percent growth in gifts during 2018, but General Secretary Elijah Brown cautioned Executive Committee members gathered March 4-6 in Falls Church, Va., that one year’s growth does not...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 3, 2019 | Opinion
My wife paints pets, one of several ways she finds joy in expressing her considerable artistic talents. She’s been working for some time on a triptych of large oil paintings depicting women who sit along the crowded alleyways of the Muslim Quarter in the Old...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 12, 2019 | Opinion
It’s been dry in Israel for several years, a small reminder of periodic droughts mentioned in the Bible. That recently came to an end with a spate of heavy winter rains. Israel typically has seasonal rains, usually beginning with scattered showers in October,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 10, 2019 | Opinion
The first newspaper comic strip I remember reading was “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith,” a mostly lame characterization of a hillbilly family from a place called “Hootin’ Holler.” One of the oldest strips around, it started in 1919 and...
