by Michael Ruffin | Nov 19, 2019 | Opinion
The danger of preachers cozying up to politicians is the focus of a story found in 1 Kings 22. The story takes place in the ninth century BCE. What had been the United Monarchy of Israel under King David and his son and successor, Solomon, has become two kingdoms. A...
by Michael Ruffin | Jun 18, 2019 | Opinion
Southern gospel music emanating from a 19-inch black-and-white television set was the background for my family getting ready for church in our small Barnesville, Georgia, home in the 1960s. We’d listen to two programs that an Atlanta station sent our way. The first...
by Michael Ruffin | Jun 13, 2019 | Opinion
I recently read a 1955 novel by Leigh Brackett titled “The Long Tomorrow.” It’s set a couple of generations after a nuclear war has devastated Earth’s cities. The new constitution of postwar America forbids the building of cities. People live only in small towns...
by Michael Ruffin | May 8, 2019 | Opinion
You may have seen a “coexist” bumper sticker on some vehicles. We have one on one of ours. The sticker uses the symbols of several religions to spell the word “coexist.” It thereby makes the statement that people who practice different religions need to learn to live...
by Michael Ruffin | Oct 9, 2018 | Opinion
Jerry Falwell Jr. is president of Liberty University and a self-appointed spokesman for “evangelical Christians” in the U.S., many of whom accept his self-appointment and take what he says seriously. He gets a lot of press. I still think of myself as an evangelical...
