by Tony W. Cartledge | May 26, 2013 | Opinion
Atop the HerodionThe study tour from Campbell University Divinity School didn’t intend for our last day in Israel to revolve around the king popularly known as Herod the Great, but several of our stops reminded us of his legacy. Herod was Idumean by ethnic...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 25, 2013 | Opinion
Going underground was a major theme for the Campbell University Divinity School travel group on Friday, May 24, as we began and ended the day beneath the earth. Like our cute glasses?The City of David was our first stop — a southern spur of the larger mountain...
by Larry Greenfield | May 24, 2013 | Opinion
The non-scriptural doctrine of the Trinity makes its annual appearance this coming Sunday, and with it the host of theological problems the Christian church has wrestled with throughout its history. As a Bible-centered Baptist, I’m continually amused by how...
by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | May 24, 2013 | Opinion
Recently, I spent a week feeling mostly like an outsider. Not because of lack of welcome – I can’t tell you how many hugs and smiles I received. Not because no one looked me in the eyes – countless children pointed at my face as if to notice I was the only...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 23, 2013 | Opinion
A Jewish boy holding a heavy Torah scroll had his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.A tour group made up mostly of Baptists (along with three Catholic friends) wouldn’t normally pray the Stations of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, but the study tour...
by Bob Newell | May 23, 2013 | Opinion
Before and during the Great Depression, my grandfather, William Emmitt Newell, was a small truck farmer, living and growing his crops in the red dirt near Marion, Miss., just outside of the “Queen City” of Meridian. Granddaddy raised turnips, tomatoes,...
