10 Christmas Albums You May Not Know
I chuckle at my use of “albums” given the remarkable comeback of vinyl recordings,...
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Author: Deal Hudson
Eight Recordings for Christmas — From Grand Mahler and Sacred Rachmaninov to Superlative Rozsa and a Requiem for Mothers
I always come back to Haydn, even before Mozart, but I’m not going to argue the case — I am immediately drawn in to his sound world, so full of emotion, of dancing and weeping, and the conductor Giovanni Antonini is afraid of neither.
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Eight Books for Christmas, from Politics and a Thriller to Paris, Moscow, Chartres, New York City, and My Back
I live surrounded by books, the piles of books and overflowing bookcases have probably pushed the foundation of my house deeper into the ground, which is a metaphor for why books matter so much.
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Today We Remember the Millions Who Were Killed for Communism
One hundred years ago today — Nov. 7, 1917 — the Russian Revolution began in Moscow...
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Yes, Pope Francis, President Trump IS Pro-Life
But rather than applauding the president’s pro-life actions, Pope Francis has attempted to co-opt the meaning of “pro-life” to include his preferred immigration policies.
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Why Are the Knights of Columbus “Partners” with Crux?
It appears to me that the Knights of Columbus have gone the way of most Catholic colleges and universities….
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Christopher Nolan’s Brilliant, Un-Romanticized, “Dunkirk”
Nolan, in my opinion, made a film that will resonate with veterans themselves who, when they speak at all, speak with great humility of their war experience.
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The Whitman Option: “Bathe me O God in thee”
The Whitman Option is offered on behalf of those whose intellectual curiosity, aesthetic hunger, political participation, artistic creativity, and social activism is part of their daily bread.
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A Son’s Love for His Mother Becomes a Musical Masterpiece
What Stephen Edwards has composed will become contemporary Requiem of choice to those who seek beauty first.
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What’s Wrong With the Church? Why Our Labels Fail.
To begin with, I’ve always been uncomfortable with any one-size-fits-all label that, by the mere utterance, is supposed to convince the hearer. Labels then become short-cuts for research, analysis, and argument.
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