Category: The Christian Review 2016
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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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Trump Among The Evangelicals
Deal W. Hudson June 21, 2016 It was supposed to be a meeting of 300, but over the course of a few weeks, it burgeoned to over 1000 attendees. The setting was hardly intimate, but given the circumstances, the Evangelical organizers did a good job of making it worth our while. Donald Trump showed another…
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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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CATHOLIC OUTREACH AND THE CLERGY: What Happens From a Layman’s Point of View
Deal W. Hudson June 24, 2016 I am giving a presentation tonight, and I thought I would share my outline with TCR readers. CATHOLIC OUTREACH AND THE CLERGY: What Happens From a Layman’s Point of View An Outline Deal W. Hudson Good-will, but naive, Catholic laypersons go to one of their priests to talk about…
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Voting Our Values: How to Vote Catholic
Deal W. Hudson June 25, 2016 How to Vote Catholic Voting Our Values Catholics make up about 30 percent of voters in national elections. Depending on voter turnout, these 36 to 39 million Catholics have the power to make our country a better nation that is more welcoming to life, more supportive of families, and…
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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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Archbishop Wenski Corrects a Fellow Bishop
Deal W. Hudson June 26, 2016 From Catholic Culture: Cardinal Thomas Wenski did what bishops rarely do, very rarely. He responded critically to the comments of Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg who said of the Orlando shootings: “Second, sadly it is religion, including our own, which targets, mostly verbally, and also often breeds contempt for…
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Why I Cringe When Pope Francis Gets On An Airplane
Deal W. Hudson June 27, 2016 Is it the altitude? Is it free cocktails? Is it the urging of a captive media hungry for headlines? Is it a loquacious and friendly Pope who likes to freewheel and think aloud? I just don’t know. But now we are told that Christians “have to apologize for so many things,…
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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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