by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 22, 2015 | Opinion
I always enjoy attending the annual Society of Biblical Literature meeting (this year in Atlanta), but when days are long and folks get tired, it’s easy to become a bit ill. I’m not ordinarily a cantankerous person, but sometimes fall victim to grousing...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 21, 2015 | Opinion
I figure it’s always helpful to hang out with people who know more than me, and the annual American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature meeting gives me a chance to be a small shell floating around in a sea of smartness. The smartness is often...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 25, 2014 | Opinion
It took a 90-year-old man to breathe some real excitement into the typically staid meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion (SBL/AAR) going on in San Diego. That happens when the nonagenarian is former president Jimmy Carter....
