by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 13, 2014 | Opinion
The vines have covered my roots. In a way. In Philadelphia for meetings of the Baptist World Alliance and North American Baptist Fellowship last week, I finally had an opportunity to go in search of my first American ancestor’s headstone. In November of 1682, at...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 9, 2014 | News
FORT WASHINGTON, PA — “Space: the final frontier.” Participants in the North American Baptist Fellowship’s (NABF) “FutureBaptists Convocation” gathered March 6-7 to imagine what missional challenges for Baptists might lie 50 years...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 8, 2014 | Opinion
The most important room in American history, one could argue, sits on the east side of what was once the Pennsylvania State House, and is now known as Independence Hall. A morning break between the Baptist World Alliance Executive Committee and the North...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 6, 2014 | Opinion
A winter afternoon in Amish country has a storybook feel despite the traffic. One doesn’t have to venture more than 30 miles west of Philadelphia to be surrounded by picturesque hillsides blanketed with snow and punctuated with farm silos. Every home, it seems,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 5, 2014 | Opinion
The largest shopping mall in the U.S. — measured by retail space — is in a Philadelphia suburb with only 20,000 permanent residents. Go figure. Early settlers in Pennsylvania had a sense of humor about place names: the place is called “King of...
