{"id":11457,"date":"2025-04-15T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.valpo.edu\/chapel\/?p=11457"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:23:40","slug":"john-ruff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/john-ruff\/","title":{"rendered":"John Ruff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Senior Research <em>Professor of English<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s what John&#8217;s recommender had to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For years Professor Ruff has contributed to the continued tradition of creating a space for students, faculty, staff, and community members to engage around books and coffee (and even tea). 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This program creates community by inviting everyone into a space to engage around the gift of story and book across disciplines and across their roles of student, faculty, staff, or community member.<\/strong><br><br>&#8211;<em> Deaconess Kristin Lewis<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Research Professor of English Here&#8217;s what John&#8217;s recommender had to say: For years Professor Ruff has contributed to the continued tradition of creating a space for students, faculty, staff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":11497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mustard-seed-moments"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Elizabeth Searle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/author\/esearle1\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/04\/20140310-JLH-John-Ruff-005-293x300.webp","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/category\/mustard-seed-moments\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mustard Seed Moments<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Mustard Seed Moments<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 1 year ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 15, 2025","modified":"Updated on July 30, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 15, 2025 9:14 am","modified":"Updated on July 30, 2025 11:23 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11498,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions\/11498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valpo.edu\/devotionals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}