by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 22, 2012 | Opinion
The earth turns 6,016 today, in case you weren’t aware. We know this because of the work of Archbishop James Ussher, a 17th century Irishman who was quite a scholar. While those of us who don’t take everything in the Bible literally and who accept...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 19, 2012 | Opinion
When you want to see one of its members elected as president, apparently. For many years, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) has steadfastly assigned cult status to Mormons (officially, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), but with an...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 17, 2012 | Opinion
If you’ve ever been inclined to give up or felt too low to grow, take heart from Methuselah — not the guy from Genesis who reportedly lived to be 969 years old (Gen. 5:21-27), but his namesake, a six-year-old Judean date palm tree that was sprouted from a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 15, 2012 | Opinion
My ears are still ringing. Even the one that’s mostly deaf. Last night, in an ongoing effort to expand my cultural horizons, I attended a concert by “The Australian Pink Floyd Show” at the Durham Performing Arts Center. For a variety of reasons...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 15, 2012 | Opinion
Protestants in America made big news last week – by officially becoming a minority. A major study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in 2007 showed that American Protestants, at 51.3 percent of the population, were “on the verge of becoming a minority...
