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How It All Comes How It All Comes Down to What Catholics Can’t Do or Won’t Do
Deal W. Hudson (A speech for the “Witness to a Divided Country” Ave Maria Radio Conference, Ypsilanti, MI January 12, 2012) This morning I’m going to ask you three questions. These are questions I don’t intend to answer for you. You must answer them for yourselves. The greatest teacher of all, Socrates, understood the first…
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The Sublime Askernish
Deal W. Hudson I had just finished my second experience of the three-day Askernish Open at the restored 1891 Old Tom Morris course in the Outer Hebrides on the island of South Uist. As in the previous year, I was completely exhausted but completely exhilarated by my three days of walking, climbing, trudging the fairways,…
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A Parable About Beauty
Deal W. Hudson A man once asked a Christian friend where he could find the Truth. The friend replied without hesitation, “Look to Jesus Christ who is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” A woman once asked a Christian friend where she could find the Good. The friend quickly replied, “Look at the life…
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Why I Rejected “Spirituality”
Deal W. Hudson I was newly graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary, a licensed Southern Baptist ministry now at Emory University studying for a Ph.D in Theology and Literature. Prof. Author Evans, one of my teachers, an expert at French and European literature, had invited me to take tea with him in the back yard of…
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Noah Meets the Transformers and Pretends to Be Abraham
Deal W. Hudson The very talented writer director Darren Aronofsky would have been well advised not to entitle his movie, Noah. This name raises reasonable expectations in a viewer, such as the movie be placed within a Judeo-Christian cosmology and to portray the chief spiritual struggle of the main character. “Aronofsky’s Noah” — a more…
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Why God Became Man
Deal W. Hudson It began with a simple fact: When God created man and woman He did not give them the mind of an angel. If humans were angels, God could have delivered His Word directly into their minds by illumination. Though created in His image and likeness, men and women derive all that they…
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Why the Wise Men Followed the Star
Deal W. Hudson Wise men have always looked at the heavens with wonder. For them, the night sky filled with stars represents the luminous, the utterly ineffable, the holy. With this sense of overwhelming awe, comes a question: “What lies behind it all?” Wise men don’t ignore this question by burying themselves in practical matters,…
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Leftists Try to Hurt Pope Francis
Deal W. Hudson Published March 18, 2013 It really didn’t matter who the cardinals elected as the new pope. The Left, and we know who they are, hate the Church. Regardless who walked out on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, there would be no honeymoon, hardly time for a hiccup, in fact, before the…
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Don’t Call Me a Conservative Catholic Anymore!
Deal W. Hudson Published October 17, 2013 Labels in politics and religion serve a purpose: There are discernible groups and coalitions within and between the worlds of the Church and government. Words used as labels serve the purpose of enabling us to distinguish between one group and the other. But I don’t want to be…
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Why Dictators Start with the Culture
Deal W. Hudson In her 2012 study of the Soviet takeover after WWII of eight European countries, Anne Applebaum underscores how diligently the agents of Stalin, the Red Army, set out to transform the culture of every occupied nation (Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-56). Applebaum notes that after the initial Soviet takeover…
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