Jul 6, 2019 | Tony Cartledge Blog
The second day of the Baptist International Conference on Theological Education got underway with a stirring paper by Valérie Duval-Poujol of France on the subject of “Bible Translations and How They Have Affected Women’s Engagement in the Church and...
Jul 5, 2019 | Tony Cartledge Blog
Every five years or so, the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) sponsors a conference with the ungainly acronym of BICTE: the Baptist International Conference on Theological Education. Meeting either before or after the BWA’s Annual Gathering, the conference generally...
Jul 3, 2019 | Tony Cartledge Blog
One of my favorite movies is Forrest Gump, and there’s a memorable scene in which his army friend Bubba recites to him all the different ways his coastal Louisiana mother knows how to cook shrimp. Fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, shrimp scampi, shrimp alfredo,...
Jun 23, 2019 | Tony Cartledge Blog
The first stories I can remember hearing as a child were from Joel Chandler Harris’ collection of African American folktales as told by a fictional character known as Uncle Remus. Harris became a respected journalist in Atlanta during the post-reconstruction...
May 22, 2019 | Tony Cartledge Blog
Some folks might wonder why I keep posting blogs cataloging each tour group I take to Israel, the West Bank, and occasionally Jordan: I’ve done it (you can look them up!) in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, and this year — not to mention other travels...
