Category: The Christian Review 2018
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Peter O’Toole’s Nose
Deal W. Hudson January 15, 2018 Peter O’Toole was so handsome, even men called him “beautiful,” but the perfectly chiseled nose was not part of his original equipment. In the fascinating biography of O’Toole by Robert Sellers, we discover that the 27-year old had his nose “bobbed” because he wanted “to be a movie star.”…
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Why the 1916 Somme Slaughter?
Deal W. Hudson January 20, 2018 I’m reading Hugh Sebag-Montefiore’s magisterial Somme: Into the Breach (Viking, 2016) where he attempts to explain why Great Britain suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 fatalities, on the first day of the battle, July 1, 1916. It’s a story of monumental pride, chaotic disorganization, delusional self-confidence, disingenuous calls to duty, and broken promises…
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Trump’s First Year: A Symposium
Deal W. Hudson January 23, 2018 I’ve asked a few knowledgeable friends to join some of TCR’s contributing editors to comment on the leadership of President Trump’s first year in office. I’ve added identification where I deemed necessary. Dr. Deal W. Hudson On February 21, 2016, I wrote a column under the title, “Will Pro-Life…
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Meeting Cervantes — the Man Who Invented the Novel
Deal W. Hudson February 1, 2018 Some books engross you immediately, that’s certainly true of William Egginton’s The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2016). I was, like many, familiar with Cervantes’s place at the beginning of a literary tradition called the “novel,” but I started the book somewhat suspicious of…
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The Catholic King Who Supported the Muslim Invasion of Europe
Deal W. Hudson February 5, 2018 That Catholic king was Francis I who in the 16th century openly sided with Suleiman the Magnificent in his Muslim wars on Christians in Eastern Europe. The reason was simple, as explained by historian John Julius Norwich in Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis 1, Charles V, and Suleiman the Magnificent…
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The Exquisite Beauty of the Familiar
Deal W. Hudson February 13, 2018 This morning I burst into song: “Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh, what a beautiful day.” My son, Cyprian, now twenty-one, he had not heard me do that in while, and half-smiled, half-frowned. But as I sang the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II and the melody of Richard Rodgers,…
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Holy Land Religious Leaders claim, “POLITICAL PERSECUTION LEADS TO THE CLOSURE OF CHRISTIANITY’S HOLIEST SITE”
Deal W. Hudson February 27, 2018 The following is a press release and statement from THEOPHILOS III, Patriarch of Jerusalem; FRANCESCO PATTON, Custos of the Holy Land; NOURHAN MANOUGIAN, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem regarding their decision to close the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to protest Israel’s taxation of Church property. Readers should be aware that…
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The Simple Reason Why We Should Hope Hell Exists
Deal W. Hudson March 31, 2018 You’ve heard that Pope Francis may not believe in the existence of Hell, but all Catholics should hope he is wrong. Why? The simple reason is this: Take away Hell, and you have taken away human freedom, dignity, and the imago Dei (Genesis 1.27). It’s relatively simple, also, to understand why…
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Pope Francis Gives the Democrats a Gift — But It Won’t Work
Deal W. Hudson April 11, 2018 Writing for NEWSMAX, I explained why Pope Francis’s recent attempt to set abortion and immigration on the equal moral ground cannot be rationally defended. Yes, they have the principle of ‘loving thy neighbor’ in common, but they are distinctly different kinds of moral judgments. Pope Francis get’s it. He…
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What My Son Needs to Know Which I Learned Too Late
Deal W. Hudson May 8, 2018 The one vivid memory I have of my grandmother, Nana, my father’s mother, was her sitting in a rocking chair smoking one cigarette after another while I sat on the floor of her darkened bedroom, the tall curtains drawn and the air filled with smoke. It was the annual,…
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