Russ Spangler

Department of Speech, Alma College, Michigan

Articles by Russ Spangler

Are We Communicating?

September 1966

PERHAPS you have heard or read one version of the old story of the two somewhat deaf men and their efforts to commu­nicate: "My, it's windy today, isn't it?" said one to the other as they were traveling along. "Well, no, I think it's Thursday!"…

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A Call to Silence

January 1966

WE LIVE in an age when it has been said that the next generation will have eyes the size of cantaloupes and brains the size of peas. If it were a fact that a mem­ber of the body in­creased or decreased in direct proportion to the amount of…

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"Hey, Preach--You're Comin' Through!"

July 1969

IN AN age when the formal liturgy and the pious "other-worldly" attitude of many churches has so completely "turned off" modern young people, it is refreshingly inspiring to discover a preacher who is "comin' through!"

It awakens…

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