by Tony W. Cartledge | May 18, 2013 | Opinion
Saturday began for me with a quiet walk along an abutment running into the Sea of Galilee, with the Nof Ginosar hotel swimming area to the left, and a shallow natural inlet, overgrown with bamboo and other vegetation, to the right. The morning air was filled with song...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 17, 2013 | Opinion
Friday for Campbell University’s “Bible Land Study Tour” began on the Mount of Beatitudes with an outdoor devotion led by Nathan Morton and surrounded by flowers of many types on the beautifully landscaped grounds overlooking the Sea of Galilee. At...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 16, 2013 | Opinion
Protestant types love the Holy Land for many reasons, largely for the landscapes, the sense of God’s presence in the land, the feeling that when we walk the main street of ancient Capernaum or cross the worn floor of the Roman police headquarters in the Antonia,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 14, 2013 | Opinion
Longtime Baptist editor R.G. Puckett died May 12, having spent much of his 80 years in the “Baptist battles” that characterized the last 40 years (at least) of Baptist life in the South. And he loved a good fight. Gene Puckett always had an opinion and was...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 11, 2013 | Opinion
Photo by Luci PrazeresIt always happens. I’m a sucker for happy endings, so how could I not weep? This year, as graduation exercises for the Campbell University Divinity School unfolded, it was my turn to carry the mace, a ceremonial scepter of sorts the...
