Category: Culture
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Why I Can Be Friends With Liberals, Democrats, and Pro-Aborts
By Deal W. Hudson 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. Let me say from the start that my reason…
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I Am About to Snap!
By Deal W. Hudson 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 I’m living…
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Will America Last? The 2016 Election
Published Jan. 11, 2016 at The Christian Review 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:…
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The Christian Review — A Guide to Readers and Writers
Deal W. Hudson Published December 20, 2014 We’ve received much positive feedback over the past few days since the launch of The Christian Review, including a number of inquiries from potential contributors. The “more the merrier” is our attitude toward both writers and readers. Rather than publishing a style sheet or mission statement, we offer…
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Why a Christian Review?
Deal W. Hudson December 17, 2014 The aim of practical criticism as embodied in the book review, the movie review, or the music review is pedagogic, and must be so without apology. When well-written, informed, and insightful, reviews instruct all of us in how to better understand what we have read, seen, or heard, or…
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Gov. Christie — Go to Green Bay!
Deal W. Hudson Published January 8, 2015 Following the victory of the Dallas Cowboys over the Detroit Tigers, longtime Cowboy’s fan, Gov. Chris Christie, gave Jerry Jones a hug — Jones is the owner of the Cowboys. Since Christie was sitting in the owner’s box his impetuous embrace was caught on TV and broadcast to…
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Understanding “Incivility”
Deal W. Hudson Published October 25, 2010 Is the religious right uncivil? Conservatives Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner think so. In a joint Huffington Post column titled “The Success and Failure of the Religious Right,” they argue: The language and tone of the religious right have often been apocalyptic, off-putting, and counterproductive. “Just like what…
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Duped by Civility
Deal W. Hudson Published March 7, 2011 Reading Nietzsche taught me one thing: People can talk about values and really be interested only in getting their way. Case in point: All the talk about political “civility” is more about power than good manners. Specifically, it’s about marginalizing everyone who finds it necessary and appropriate to…
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The Worst Book I Ever Read
Deal W. Hudson A Review of Conversations With God ( Book 1) When I wrote a book on happiness in 1995, I was required to read a number of the popular self-help books on the subject. It was only dogged persistence and several strong cigars that got me through them. But lo and behold, at the…
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An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev
Note: In the winter of 2002 I was invited to Moscow by my friend, Tom Murray, to meet and interview Mikhail Gorbachev. Tom was spearheading the building of the first pro-life maternity clinic in Russia, and persisted until it was opened a few years later. President Gorbachev supported Tom and his mission which he reiterated…
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