Tag: Deal Hudson
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Will America Last? — The 2016 Election
By Deal W. Hudson 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 is gathering…
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How the Beatles, My Great Aunt, and Debussy Changed My Life
By Deal W. Hudson It was the spring of 1970 when Paul McCartney announced he was leaving the Beatles. I had already grown discontent with pop music, the frenetic discord of Jimmy Hendrix touched no part of a young man brought up on Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, and Broadway show…
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The Day a Red Bird Sang St. Thomas Aquinas
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. One of the greatest Protestant theologians, Soren Kierkegaard, had provided the base motif…
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Getting Beyond the Spite
Published December 1, 2001 DEAL W. HUDSON Pro-life efforts rarely make the front page, much less above the fold. In fact, it seems the only time pro-life demonstrations make the evening news is when a handful of abortion activists peddle their pitch to sympathetic media ears across the street from our crowd of protestors. It…
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Why Catholics Should Reject the Jesus Seminar
Published December 1, 1999 Deal W. Hudson Normally the average Catholic need not worry about a group of academicians who meet every year to discuss the “historicity” of the Gospels. These debates have been going on inside ivy walls for over a century. But with the recent national road-show of the Jesus Seminar, founded in…
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Christmas is for Children
Published December 1, 1997 DEAL W. HUDSON I heard our president on the radio this morning, announcing, “We must make sure that parents are able to spend time with their children whenever they can.” If the “we” had been the American people, not the government, then the comment was merely an obvious truism. Apparently, though,…
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The Christian Review — A Guide to Readers and Writers
Deal W. Hudson Published December 20, 2014 We’ve received much positive feedback over the past few days since the launch of The Christian Review, including a number of inquiries from potential contributors. The “more the merrier” is our attitude toward both writers and readers. Rather than publishing a style sheet or mission statement, we offer…
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Why a Christian Review?
Deal W. Hudson December 17, 2014 The aim of practical criticism as embodied in the book review, the movie review, or the music review is pedagogic, and must be so without apology. When well-written, informed, and insightful, reviews instruct all of us in how to better understand what we have read, seen, or heard, or…
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Gov. Christie — Go to Green Bay!
Deal W. Hudson Published January 8, 2015 Following the victory of the Dallas Cowboys over the Detroit Tigers, longtime Cowboy’s fan, Gov. Chris Christie, gave Jerry Jones a hug — Jones is the owner of the Cowboys. Since Christie was sitting in the owner’s box his impetuous embrace was caught on TV and broadcast to…
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Understanding “Incivility”
Deal W. Hudson Published October 25, 2010 Is the religious right uncivil? Conservatives Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner think so. In a joint Huffington Post column titled “The Success and Failure of the Religious Right,” they argue: The language and tone of the religious right have often been apocalyptic, off-putting, and counterproductive. “Just like what…
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