by Michael Ruffin | Jan 18, 2011 | Opinion
My wife and I are responsible, adult human beings – and have been for a long time. So, when we got married in June 1978, one of the first things we did was take out a health insurance policy with one of America’s leading insurers. Since then we have had health...
by Michael Ruffin | Sep 22, 2010 | Opinion
I’m sitting in a motel room in Decatur, Ga., some 180 miles from my home in Fitzgerald, Ga., as I write this. I’m here because yesterday morning someone in our church family had surgery in Macon (more or less halfway between Fitzgerald and Atlanta) and...
by Michael Ruffin | Jul 13, 2010 | Opinion
I make a lot of typographical errors. So, I am not hard on others, particularly bloggers and Facebook writers, who don’t have the advantage – or disadvantage – of an editor. A friend was writing about watching a July 4 fireworks show. When he typed a...
by Michael Ruffin | Jun 28, 2010 | Opinion
On the last night of my Panama City Beach, Fla., vacation, I sat on the balcony of our borrowed sixth-floor condominium watching the sun set on my time of rest – and perhaps on a way of life that is as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and, yes, Chevrolet. I...
by Michael Ruffin | Jun 16, 2010 | Opinion
A document called a certificate of license hangs on my study wall. It reads: “This is to certify Michael Lee Ruffin who has given evidence that God has called him into THE GOSPEL MINISTRY was Licensed to preach the Gospel as he may have opportunity, and to...
