by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 1, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following article appeared in the March/April issue of Nurturing Faith Journal. It has been updated to reflect the number of deaths in the war between Israel and Hamas. All photos, unless otherwise noted, courtesy of the author. Since the October 7,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 6, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
The annual festival of football frenzy and consumer excess is on the horizon. Parties will abound. Millions will order pizza and wings, fried chicken and beer and Chinese food. Millions of delivery drivers will zoom back and forth, hustling from their cars to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 23, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
They don’t have Diet Mountain Dew, at least in Sorrento. That’s one of the many things I learned during a mid-December week Susan and I spent celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary. We decided to forgo attempting a grand tour of Italy. Instead, we stayed the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 4, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
With Advent underway, many churches have held a celebratory service to adorn the sanctuary with festive decorations—wreaths, of course, and forests of poinsettias. Chrismon trees are popular, as worshipers happily hang Styrofoam alphas and omegas along with oversized...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 29, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
The sessions were one thing, but the museums were another. The American Schools for Overseas Research offers not only academic papers on the archaeology of Israel, Mesopotamia, and other ancient sites, but also applied sessions on subjects such as connections between...