by Michael Ruffin | Jun 13, 2007 | Opinion
The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention continues today in San Antonio, Texas. I am writing in Augusta, Ga., and I’m OK with that. Oh, I’d like to visit San Antonio again. It’s a beautiful city, and the Riverwalk is everything...
by Michael Ruffin | Apr 30, 2007 | Opinion
Stephen Prothero is chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University and author of the new book “Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–and Doesn’t.” He recently published an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education...
by Michael Ruffin | Mar 22, 2007 | Opinion
A personal policy prevents me from identifying my choices in an election. It would be detrimental to my work as a pastor to choose sides publicly in an election contest. I will talk issues. Prophetic preaching demands that issues, including those that relate to public...
by Michael Ruffin | Mar 20, 2007 | Opinion
Bowie Kuhn, the commissioner of major league baseball from 1969 to 1984, died last Thursday at age 80. Kuhn served as commissioner during the years that I really started paying attention to baseball. Indeed, he is the first commissioner about whom I remember hearing....
by Michael Ruffin | Jan 30, 2007 | Opinion
This month one of my childhood heroes marked his 78th anniversary in the entertainment business—Popeye the Sailor. Popeye made his debut on Jan. 17, 1929, in a comic strip in the New York Evening Journal. I got to know Popeye through his “moving pictures,”...
