by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 19, 2007 | Opinion
They stood like soldiers, ten ladderback chairs that needed my attention. We bought them in stages more than 20 years ago, as Jan and I were first setting up housekeeping in Oxford, N.C., then adding more furniture to fill a larger parsonage when we moved to Boone.We...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 19, 2007 | Opinion
… on my pin?According to the Jerusalem Post, scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have successfully inscribed the entire text of the Hebrew Bible – vowels included – on a gold-covered silicon chip smaller than the head of a pin.I remember...
by Mark McEntire | Dec 19, 2007 | Opinion
A story is making the rounds in religious news about a recent address by Phillip Jenkins of Pennsylvania State University to the Evangelical Theological Society in November. Jenkins argued that Africans are often able to read the Old Testament in a more productive way...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 18, 2007 | Opinion
Chuckles and bewilderment, not outrage, seemed to be the primary and appropriate responses to someone at a New York City grocery store labeling the ham as “Delicious for Chanukah (Hannaukkah)” recently. Apparently, it was not an intentional offense. An...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Dec 18, 2007 | Opinion
As I was leaving the Opryland Hotel at the end of my volunteer shift at the 76th annual general assembly of the United Jewish Communities, an elderly man walking with his wife stopped me to ask why there were so many people wearing kippot (yarmulkes). Pointing to my...
by Mike Parnell | Dec 18, 2007 | Opinion
Naomi Levy, in her book To Begin Again, tells the story of a parishioner in her synagogue who survived a brutal attack on Yom Kippur. The victim asked: “Where was God? Was God so busy at the Yom Kippur service in synagogue that God forgot about me?”...
