Baptists Today names Cartledge as contributing editor
From contributed reports
MACON, Ga. - Tony W. Cartledge, who is retiring as editor of the Biblical Recorder this summer, will become contributing editor of the autonomous, national news journal Baptists Today on August 1.
Cartledge, 55, had earlier announced plans to leave the editorship of the Recorder, to teach Old Testament at Campbell University's divinity school in Buies Creek.
In the part-time position with Baptists Today, Cartledge will contribute news, opinion and feature writings to both the monthly print and daily web editions (baptiststoday). Directors of the news journal approved his appointment during their April 20 meeting in Birmingham, Ala.
"Tony Cartledge has provided first-class reporting and news analysis to thoughtful Baptists for years," said Jimmy R. Allen, chair of the Baptists Today board of directors. "His joining us will be a major step for increasing the effectiveness of Baptists Today."
Cartledge, who serves on the Baptist World Alliance communications committee, wants to keep a hand in journalism. And Baptists Today is the first Baptist journal he wrote for on a regular basis.
"I am delighted by the opportunity to enter a formal relationship with Baptists Today as contributing editor," said Cartledge, whose Bible study commentaries were carried in the publication for several years while he was a pastor. "I hope my contributions will help to make an excellent journal even better."
Baptists Today executive editor John Pierce said he is pleased Cartledge will become a part of the news journal's editorial team.
"Our readers are well acquainted with and appreciative of Tony's good work from earlier days when his Bible commentaries appeared in Baptists Today to his more recent writings we have carried," said Pierce. "I look forward to working more directly with him in providing readers with interesting, relevant and unrestricted information that is both reliable and helpful."
Cartledge will continue to live in Apex. Baptist Today was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Macon, Ga.
