by Tony W. Cartledge | May 17, 2020 | Opinion
In the field of archaeology, there’s good news and bad. We might as well get the bad news out of the way first: virtually the entire 2020 digging season for volunteers has become a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most digs in Israel, at least, take place in...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 23, 2020 | Opinion
Since the COVID-19 pandemic sent us all home, Faculty and staff at Campbell University Divinity School have been posting “Words of Encouragement” to our students and others twice a week. For this week, I thought it would be appropriate to share some of the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 20, 2020 | Opinion
If the global COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t accomplished anything else, it has given us something new to think about, often ad infinitum. Out of the overflow, I share a few miscellaneous ponderings in case anyone’s bored enough to read them and commiserate: The...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 24, 2020 | Opinion
No one needs reminding that life is currently different from anything we’ve known before. With large gatherings banned, in-person church meetings have been called off with no clear end in sight. As more and more states impose “shelter in place”...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 20, 2020 | Opinion
I confess to having been a bit surprised by the outright panic many people seem to be experiencing in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. It is a crisis: don’t get me wrong. We need to take it seriously and pay attention to advice from health authorities. We need...
