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Michael Duduit
September 1992
In this political season, it's impossible to get away from reports of the latest opinion survey or political poll. One candidate is...
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Michael Duduit
July 1992
I read that Sotheby's, the famous New York auction house, had a major sale of baseball cards, with at least one selling for more than...
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Michael Duduit
March 1992
Now that the Supreme Court has lowered the gavel on "Dial-a-Porn" 900-number telephone services, all those vacant phone lines will...
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Michael Duduit
January 1992
Standing for the first time among the group, the middle-aged man looked around the circle, then uttered those words: "My name is Bob,...
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Michael Duduit
November 1991
In his Cadbury Lectures (published under the title The Poet, The Warrior, The Prophet), Brazilian poet Ruben A. Alves describes watching...
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Michael Duduit
September 1991
If the software innovations keep coming, it's only a matter of time until Sunday morning will find parishioners using their personal...
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Michael Duduit
July 1991
Here it is, six months after the beginning (and end) of the Persian Gulf War, and those war-related phrases are still bouncing around...
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Michael Duduit
If anyone knows words, it should be the fine people at the Merriam-Webster company, who publish a variety of dictionaries. Each year, it seems, they scour the culture to search out those new words and phrases that have come into common use, and this year they’ve added more than 100 new entries to their Collegiate Dictionary (according to a story in the July 7 Dallas Morning News).Among the new entries for the latest edition:Air quotes is defined as "gestures made by raising and flexing the index and middle fingers of both hands, used to call attention to a spoken word or expression." If this is an appropriate entry, then I’d suggest they also add bop you one, which is what my dad did to "call attention" to my failure to obey promptly.Dirty bomb is a "bomb designed to release radioactive...
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Michael Duduit
This is the summer of the book boxes at the Duduit household.As I shared with you in a previous issue, this summer our family is moving to Anderson, S.C., where I assume duties as the founding dean of...
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Michael Duduit
These days, American businesses seem to be outsourcing more and more products and services. Call a firm for information about Aunt Ethel’s airline flight, or to get help with a computer problem, and you’re...
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Michael Duduit
Every day is special, but some are more special than others.
At least that seems to be the case, judging by the plethora of “holidays” that are wedging their way into the calendar. I’m not talking about...
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Michael Duduit
I remember when e-mail was the coolest thing going. Now e-mail is for us old guys, as the millennial generation has stepped things up to communicating with each other via text-messaging.
You’ve...
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Michael Duduit
By now, any church leader who has visited a Christian bookstore or a Christian website in the past few years has seen the term “Emerging Church."
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Michael Duduit
Someone e-mailed me the other day to alert me that my name had appeared in an article in Wikipedia. Apparently an old friend had gone to the entry about my seminary alma mater and listed me as a “notable...
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