RALEIGH, N.C. — Tony Cartledge, editor of North Carolina’s Biblical Recorder, has announced plans to become an associate professor of Old Testament at Campbell University Divinity School in Buies Creek, N.C. The Recorder is the newspaper of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Cartledge, 55, will remain as editor through July 31 and begin his duties at Campbell Aug. 15.
Cartledge said Jan. 12 the convention drift to a more conservative stance did play a part in his decision to leave, although it was not the deciding factor. As proof of the drift, he mentioned proposed convention bylaw changes that would have given convention-related institutions more influence over the appointment of trustees and directors. The amendments, though supported by convention officials, were rejected in the convention’s 2006 annual meeting.
"That is at odds with my personal and persistent support of a Baptist heritage that I believe promotes unity in diversity over uniformity in doctrine, and it leaves me increasingly out of step with the majority view," he said. Before joining the Recorder, Cartledge served 26 years as a pastor in Georgia and North Carolina. He also taught Old Testament adjunctively at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C.; Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C.; and the Theological Seminary of Armenia in Erevan, Armenia. Cartledge graduated from the University of Georgia in Athens in 1973. He later earned a master of divinity degree from Southeastern Seminary in 1982. In 1989, he earned the doctor of philosophy in Old Testament from Duke University in Durham, N.C.
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