Category: Culture
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Beauty: The Way to Heaven Or Hell?
Deal W. Hudson June 22, 2016 What did Fyodor Dostoevsky mean in The Idiot (1869) when one of his characters asserts, “Beauty will save the world?” Taken at face value, it’s a claim that beauty plays a role in the salvation of us all. It also contains the implication that the culture surrounding us, as the platform…
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An Hour with Dana Gioia and His Poetry — A Radio Interview
Deal W. Hudson June 25, 2016 Here is my one-hour interview with poet, critic, essayist, Dana Gioia on “Church and Culture” on the Ave Maria Radio Network. “Church and Culture” were heard on Saturday 2 pm to 4 pm EST from and Sunday 7.30-9.30 pm EST. Dana Gioia reads and discusses his newest book, 99 Poems: New…
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A Speech on Pro-Life Politics – A Layman’s Point of View
Deal W. Hudson June 26, 2016 On June 24, 2016, I gave this speech on Faithful Citizenship at the Ruah Woods Conference Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. I followed Father Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life. I shared my experiences in the Catholic outreach efforts of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, as well…
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Bill Donohue Exposes Jesus Hoax of Harvard Professor
Deal W. Hudson. June 27, 2016 Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, has just slapped down some theological and archeological silliness of a Harvard professor about there being a “wife” of Jesus: Read what he has to say below. In 2012, Harvard professor Karen L. King told the world that we need to rethink…
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The Coming Civil War?
Deal W. Hudson July 9, 2016 Though I opposed the election of President Obama, twice, I hoped, like many others, that it would offer hope to the African American community and lower the tensions between white and black Americans. Now, at the end of two Obama terms, we have a group, #BlackLivesMatter, seething with anger,…
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To Vote Your Conscience Starts ‘In the Beginning’
Deal W. Hudson October 4, 2016 As I have watched the spectacle of our Church virtually ignoring the threat of a pro-abortion Clinton/Kaine administration, I started examining my own conscience. I asked myself two questions: Why am I so certain of voting for Trump/Pence? And, what does that have to do with my being Catholic? My impulse…
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Hypocritical Puritanism and the Media Attack on Donald Trump
Deal W. Hudson October 18, 2016 It began with Fox News anchor, Megyn Kelly, seen above, whose opening salvo at Donald Trump in the first presidential debate which set the tone, and content, for the remainder of the campaign. The tone would be self-righteously moralistic and the content would be sex, sex, and more sex. Kelly: “You’ve…
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Dear Aiden, About That Picture You Saw, Let Me Try to Explain….
Deal W. Hudson October 24, 2016 Dear Aiden, Your mother told me you were recently confused by a picture and asked her some questions about it. She has asked me to attempt answering your questions because she knows I am very interested in the subject of clothing and how people dress these days. It’s wonderful…
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A Cultural Outcast Asks: Who Can I Turn To, When Nobody Loves Me?
Deal W. Hudson. November 15, 2016 I’m a regular reader of various cultural blogs and magazines, especially those devoted to books, film, and classical music. Some of them have fed my mind and soul since college days. But over the past six months, I have watched as many of them bash Donald Trump and his “deplorable”…
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Marion Montgomery’s Prophetic Critique of the American “Popular Spirit”
Deal W. Hudson December 5, 2016 Readers of The Christian Review may already be familiar with the name Marion Montgomery (1925-2011). During his 30 years as a professor at the University of Georgia, Montgomery published articles regularly in Modern Age, Hillsdale Review, This World, Chronicles, and Crisis Magazine. But the growth of Montgomery’s reputation was spurred greatly by the publication in the early…
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