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Michael Duduit
November 1990
It's not often I stay up late enough to watch David Letterman on television, since he comes on at 12:30 a.m. and I'm usually dead-to-the-world...
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Michael Duduit
September 1990
There's nothing that'll humble you faster than looking over your old sermons.Like lots of preachers I know, my life in the pulpit began...
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Michael Duduit
July 1990
Great ideas sometimes come from unusual places -- like the comic pages.While many people claim that they turn first to the news or...
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Michael Duduit
May 1990
This time they've gone too far.These days we seem to be inundated with surveys. It's understandable in election years -- after all,...
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Michael Duduit
March 1990
It's a disturbing precedent.According to the Chronicle of Higher Education (January 31, 1990), Clark University is offering students...
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Michael Duduit
January 1990
For more than a year, a book with a remarkable title -- All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum -- has...
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Michael Duduit
November 1989
Every preacher should be required to stay home and watch Oprah occasionally.During a recent afternoon, my wife was watching Oprah's...
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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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