by Tony Cartledge | Jul 8, 2020 | Opinion
The letter came in a business-sized envelope, but it was hand addressed in bold print with a complete return address and an honest-to-God stamp. How often does that happen? I noted the Raleigh postmark but didn’t recognize the sender’s name, so I opened it with some...
by Tony Cartledge | Jun 30, 2020 | Opinion
I don’t know how the critter got under our house, which is brick to the ground except for small screened vents that can barely accommodate a curious bug, much less a marsupial. However it got there, it must have found enough bugs or worms or spiders to survive for a...
by Tony Cartledge | Jun 19, 2020 | Opinion
Some days you never forget: sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not so good. This is about one of the happy ones, and fortunately, it keeps turning up. In 2015, my wife Susan and I volunteered to spend three weeks digging with the Fourth Expedition to Lachish,...
by Tony Cartledge | May 27, 2020 | News
Elijah Brown, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA), announced that leaders will celebrate Pentecost amid the pandemic by hosting a “virtual global BWA worship service” on Friday and Saturday, May 29 and 30. Both services will feature a short message...
by Tony Cartledge | Feb 24, 2020 | Opinion
Beneath a huge bridge on the main road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, just past a huge subdivision called Mevaseret Zion and less than four miles northwest of the Old City, one can find the remains of an ancient temple that may have been used to worship both Yahweh and...
