by Michael Ruffin | May 1, 2012 | Opinion
Editor’s note: Tomorrow, EthicsDaily.com will carry Ruffin’s column on what people don’t mean when they say, “I enjoyed that sermon.” Below are the top 10 things people really mean when they say, “I enjoyed that sermon.” 10....
by Michael Ruffin | Feb 27, 2012 | Opinion
Here in the 53rd year of my life and in the 36th year of my ministry I participated in an act of worship in which I had never participated before – the imposition of ashes. There were a handful of Catholic families in my hometown but I guess I never saw any of them on...
by Michael Ruffin | Jan 19, 2012 | Opinion
While reading a book produced in England about the history of rock ‘n’ roll music, I kept coming across the phrase “ersatz albums,” as in “several ersatz albums followed their well-received debut.” Given that the word was ubiquitous...
by Michael Ruffin | May 4, 2011 | Opinion
You’d think it would be so simple. You’d think that I would be able to look at a simple formula like “Osama bin Laden killed thousands of Americans + Now American forces have killed Osama bin Laden = Justice has been done” and feel good about...
by Michael Ruffin | Apr 13, 2011 | Opinion
At 4:40 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, initiating the first battle of the American Civil War, an internecine conflict that would result in the preservation of the Union at the cost of some...
