Michael Riley

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Introduction Michael Riley is a feature writer and columnist for the Asbury Park Press. An ordained American Baptist minister, he pastored three congregations over a period of 20 years before being lured from the pulpit by the secular humanist, heathenish world of journalism. The Baptists were only slightly sorry to see him go. Riley was born in Camden and raised in a South Jersey trailer park in the shadow of a truck stop. He is a graduate of Eastern College and Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife, who will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary in May, have four sons. The only really honest work he has ever done was a stint as a clam shucker at a place called Cap'n Cat's in South Jersey. Riley has been said to assume that he is usually the smartest person in any room he happens to be in. The man has opinions.