by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 21, 2022 | Opinion
Spending a post-semester week near Boone, North Carolina, brought back memories of the four good years I lived there in the 1980s. I served as pastor to the good people of Oak Grove Baptist Church and did a little adjunct teaching at Appalachian State University while...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 7, 2022 | Opinion
Come with me back to Thanksgiving Day at our house, where we weren’t expecting a crowd – just two of our sons – but Susan had the stove working overtime for much of the day. We were roasting a turkey for the sake of the boys, so it had been in the oven for more than...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 23, 2022 | Opinion
The past couple of weeks have been good for archaeology nerds, with several recent discoveries making news. In Egypt, an archaeologist looking for Cleopatra’s tomb has found an artfully constructed stone tunnel described as a “geometric miracle,” according to an...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 9, 2022 | Opinion
We’re sitting on the upper deck of the Crab’s Claw in Atlantic Beach, enjoying the salty breeze, and sweating. It’s November, and it’s 82 degrees. An obnoxiously busy October left Susan and I both yearning for respite, so we made an uncharacteristically impromptu...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 26, 2022 | Opinion
An old friend from many years ago would sometimes bemoan busy times in life by saying something like, “I don’t know whether I’m comin’ or goin’ and sometimes I meet myself in the middle.” His logic may have been lacking, but his point was clear enough: we’ve all had...
