Category: Culture
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For Christmas: Books Containing a Witness to Human Horror
Deal W. Hudson December 6, 2015 If you give only one book for Christmas, I recommend The Complete Works of Primo Levi (boxed in 3 volumes). The books are beautifully bound and edited, the pages sturdy, the fonts well-chosen, and the layout assures no hot lights or squinting are required for reading. The entire collection has been newly…
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Why I Can Be Friends With Liberals, Democrats, and Pro-Aborts
Deal W. Hudson December 20, 2015 I’m writing this in response to comments made over the years about friendships I’ve maintained with persons who are diametrically opposed to many of my core values. Most of these comments have the tone of disapproval, others just sound flummoxed with me. Aristotle, detail from “The School of Athens”…
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Gain and Loss on Christmas Day – A Remembrance
Deal W. Hudson December 27, 2015 “Heard Melodies Are Sweet, but Those Unheard Are Sweeter,” wrote John Keats in his famous “Ode to a Grecian Urn.” This explains the pleasure of memories, especially those of a Christmas sixty years ago. My family lived in Prairie Village, a suburb of Kansas City, in a modest ranch-style…
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Will America Last? — The 2016 Election
Deal W. Hudson January 11, 2016 It’s tempting to say that the coming presidential election of 2016 is the most important in American history. What gives me pause is the number of times this has been said before, including by myself. But this time, I cannot help but believe it’s true. Why? Terrorism: A storm…
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Trumping Political Correctness
Deal W. Hudson March 16, 2016 The sight of the rabble in Chicago forcing Donald Trump to cancel his appearance, coupled with the attack on Trump in Ohio, reveals the boil his candidacy has lanced on the face of America. The boil has a name, “political correctness,” and millions of Americans eagerly support Trump as the man…
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The Son Is Risen!
Deal W. Hudson March 27, 2016 Two of George Herbert’s poems appropriate to this day: “Easter” and “I Got Me, Flowers,” both published in The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (1633). Herbert, born in Wales, was an Anglican priest. Five of his poems, including the two below, were set to music by Ralph Vaughn Williams as…
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Just Who Is “Us”?
Deal W. Hudson April 15, 2016 Last week, I spoke to a group of pro-life leaders about the 2016 election. I made the following remarks with the hope that the Trump and Cruz factions can eventually “kiss and make up.” *** I’m going to address the question, “Who Is Us?” In recent weeks criticism has been…
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I Am About to Snap!
Deal W. Hudson April 25, 2016 I am 66 years old, and I am about to snap. Do you even need to ask, “Why?” As I watch our nation engrossed in a debate over the morality of bathroom selection, I cannot recognize the place where I was born, raised, lived my life. I feel that…
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The 100 Best Catholic Novels I Know
Deal W. Hudson June 14, 2016 In offering this list, I’m not making an attempt to define the “Catholic novel,” which would be a very foolish enterprise. There are many reasons why a novel can, and sometimes should be called “Catholic,” but to attach that impulse to a grand metaphysic or aesthetic theory would require…
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30 Films About Faith You May Not Know
Deal W. Hudson June 17, 2016 I’m hoping that you, the reader, will discover on this list some films that will bring you enjoyment and, perhaps, insight and renewed aspiration toward the source of all beauty. It’s regrettable that educators have yet to regard cinema as an important artistic tradition, one that should be studied…
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