by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 9, 2012 | Opinion
I’ve been lucky enough to be part of a minister’s support group that’s been going now for the past 23 years. We started with a dozen or so guys who didn’t know each other well, sitting around a table at the Caraway Conference Center and trying...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 5, 2012 | Opinion
Do you have a mantra, a motto, or a favorite scripture verse that comes to mind as “words to live by”? As a nerdy freshman in high school, somewhere near the bottom of the social totem pole, I adopted the traditional Chinese saying “He who expects...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 5, 2012 | Opinion
The Church of England is continuing to struggle in the backwash after a recent attempt to approve women bishops was sunk when it narrowly failed to win approval from the General Synod’s laity arm after the bishops, clergy and 42 of 44 dioceses had shown strong...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 3, 2012 | Opinion
Christmas can be the happiest time of the year, or the hardest. The season comes with so many cultural trappings, childhood memories, and family dynamics that it can be an emotional minefield. Some people love it, others dread it. Most of us, I suspect, fall somewhere...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 30, 2012 | Opinion
The Church of England is continuing to struggle in the backwash after a recent attempt to approve women bishops was sunk when it narrowly failed to win approval from the General Synod’s laity arm after the bishops, clergy, and 42 of 44 dioceses had shown strong...
