Category: Spirituality
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Tomorrow is Never Guaranteed
Deal W. Hudson May 13, 2015 I have often been a passenger on the Amtrak train between DC and New York that derailed last night with such tragic results. I’ve always considered traveling by train extremely safe. This accident does not change my mind, though it’s a stark reminder that serious accidents can happen any time…
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Dear Pope Francis, What Happened to “Who Am I To Judge?”
Deal W. Hudson June 22, 2015 At a large rally of young people in Turin yesterday, Pope Francis made some remarks that left me shaking my head. Here’s The Guardian‘s report of the Pope’s speech about war and politics: “If you trust only men you have lost. . . . It makes me think of . . . people, managers,…
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David Brooks Doesn’t Understand Love (But Who Does?)
Deal W. Hudson June 23, 2015 David Brooks offers an interesting, and mostly correct, a critique of the Pope Francis’s new encyclical, Laudato si‘, in his column, “Fracking and the Franciscans.” Brooks correctly points out: “You would never know from the encyclical that we are living through the greatest reduction in poverty in human history. A raw and…
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My Heart Laid Bare — A Tribute to Mike Eisenbath
Deal W. Hudson July 23, 2015 This evening “The Christian Review” will publish the 17th column by Mike Eisenbath. I hope our readers fully realize how remarkable these columns have been. Few people are willing to expose themselves, be completely honest about their personal darkness, and risk the shame of being viewed as weak, sinful, or…
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The Sublime and Beautiful at Askernish
Deal W. Hudson August 23, 2015 I’m on the verge of my fourth visit to the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides to play in a three-day golf tournament on a course built by Old Tom Morris in 1891 — Askernish Golf Club. Only 1,000 souls live on the island today, and there were…
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A Catholic Church Without Hell? Where We Are Headed.
Deal W. Hudson November 3, 2015 There were many controversial pronouncements made at the Synod on the Family, but it was the “what-would-Jesus-do” comment made by Cardinal Wuerl afterward that really got my attention. In an Oct. 25 interview with Religion News Service, the cardinal was asked about the final document’s lack of specific recommendations regarding how…
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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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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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Forget ‘Faithful Citizenship’ – What Would Saint Mother Teresa Do?
Deal W. Hudson October 1, 2016 Once upon a time some Catholics who have heard all their lives that abortion is an intrinsic evil and must be opposed took a look at Clinton and Kaine ticket and thought, “There’s no way I can vote for them. They’re both abortion extremists.” They looked at the Trump/Pence…
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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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