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Opinion - Topics from May, 2018

Test results

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Wednesday, May 30. 2018

By Mike Ruffin

I walked into the church office one morning and checked the voicemail on the prayer line. Someone had left the following message: “Please pray for my friend. She’s having an autopsy tomorrow.”

I will neither confirm nor deny that I laughed out loud.

I will confess to thinking, “I think it’s a little late for prayer.”
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Outrage and demonstrations are no longer effective

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Walter Geiger

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Thursday, May 24. 2018

Methinks, thou dost protest too much
-Shakespeare

I am a baby boomer, or so they say. Born in the 1950s, I came of age in the 1960s and was on a college campus in the early 1970s.

The 60s and 70s were tumultuous times. We became very well aware of demonstrations at an early age. Primarily those demonstrations were for civil rights and getting America out of the Vietnam War. Both were noble goals and both were achieved. The demonstrations helped to a point.
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The press

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, May 16. 2018

By Mike Ruffin

May 3 was World Press Freedom Day, which is promoted annually by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). [Full Story »]

Our amazing May Melton has done it again

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, May 9. 2018

I have been to a lot of graduation ceremonies but, although I am a UGA grad, I had never been to commencement in Athens until this past weekend.

What an extravaganza it was. Sorry Jackets, Tigers, Gators, Vols and the rest of y’all but Bulldogs do things with true class.
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Sheep and shepherds

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, May 2. 2018

By Mike Ruffin

I spent six years of my life preaching in a sanctuary that had a large stained glass picture hanging over its baptistery. (For you good folks who worship in churches that use less water than Baptists and some others do to baptize, that’s where they dunk new believers and the occasional backslider who wants a do-over.) The picture portrays Jesus holding a lamb. It’s one of the most beloved Christian images: Jesus as the Good Shepherd.
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