by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 30, 2022 | Opinion
Archaeologists working at Mount Ebal, a part of ancient Israel that is near Nablus in what is now the occupied West Bank, are touting a new discovery that – if authenticated – could bring real excitement to the study of ancient paleography and perhaps even Israel’s...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 23, 2022 | Opinion
Words can have amazing power, so long as we grant it to them. In a story familiar by now, a popular Catholic priest in Arizona had to resign when someone realized he had been using one wrong word when performing baptisms. Andres Arango had served three different...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 9, 2022 | Opinion
On a lovely spring day in 1983, when my son Russ was attending elementary school in northern Durham, I joined him for a “field day.” That mainly amounted to organized games for the kids on the playground and other outside areas, a nice break from class, and a chance...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 2, 2022 | Opinion
Russia’s greedy invasion of Ukraine has the world in a tizzy, and for good reason. Land grabs are always ugly. It’s unlikely that Russian czar-for-life Vladimir Putin will follow the same path in which his war machine took the Crimean Peninsula away from Ukraine...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 23, 2022 | Opinion
It’s wintertime, so that must mean it’s time to buy spring fashions – not that fashion has ever been my strong suit, though I did learn what a “French tuck” is from Tan France while watching “Queer Eye – More Than a Makeover.” I still refuse to tuck my shirt in the...
