Category: The Christian Review 2016
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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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The Day a Red Bird Sang St. Thomas Aquinas
Deal W. Hudson January 28, 2016 I was coming to the end of my first year as a college professor at Mercer University Atlanta. I was still a Southern Baptist though I had been wrestling with that affiliation since being introduced to St. Augustine at Princeton Theological Seminary. The Danish theologian and philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard…
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Will Pro-Life Catholics Vote for Donald Trump?
Deal W. Hudson February 21, 2016 After his impressive victory in the South Carolina primary, the GOP nomination of Donald Trump is very likely. Marco Rubio may pick up some support from Jeb Bush’s overdue decision to leave the race, but Ted Cruz has established a national network of highly-energized Evangelical activists who are not wavering.…
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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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Why Does a Catholic Diocese Provide Syringes?
Deal W. Hudson April 25, 2016 While I was the publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine, I chronicled the plight of the Albany Diocese in Upstate, NY under the former leadership of now Bishop Emeritus Howard J. Hubbard. His stewardship of the diocese was a test case in the failures of the progressive policies of many churchmen…
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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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My Top 25 Recommended Audiobooks, The Best of the Best
Deal W. Hudson June 16, 2016 Good books become even better when read aloud by a skilled performer. A recent example is the recording by famed British actor, Edward Fox, of Anthony Trollope’s The Warden, the first of the Barchester novels. Fox’s deep-voiced, droll delivery has opened Trollope’s world to me as never before. Homer, the…
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