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Michael Duduit
November 1987
While thousands of Americans converged on Philadelpha this summer to celebrate the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, my wife and...
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Michael Duduit
September 1987
An article in this issue -- "Preaching: Antidote for Trivial Pursuit" by James Means -- got me to -- thinking about ways in which that...
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Michael Duduit
July 1987
"This isn't a 'preacher story.' This really happened!"It may be the punchline of an old joke, but it's still enough to make many of...
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Michael Duduit
May 1987
Any minister who has ever moved from one home or office to another knows the scourge of every ministerial move: packing and unpacking...
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Michael Duduit
March 1987
A few years ago Henry Ward Beecher became a good friend of mine.Over a year-long period when I was researching Henry's preaching and...
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Michael Duduit
January 1987
While browsing at the sale table of a local book store, I came across a delightful book entitled American Averages by Mike Feinsilber...
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Michael Duduit
November 1986
The Christmas season renews our acquaintance with some of the precious songs of the faith, like "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Too few...
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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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