Hudson is the former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine and InsideCatholic.com. He is currently president of the Morley Institute for Church and Culture. Hudson also hosts the radio show Church and Culture[1] on Ave Maria Radio and serves as publisher and editor of The Christian Review.
Hudson is the former Chairman and founder of Catholic Advocate.[2] In September, 2020, Hudson was named a Senior Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Institute in Sacramento, California.[3]
Biography
Hudson was born in Denver, Colorado. He attended the University of Texas-Austin and converted to Catholicism in 1984.[4][5] He discusses this conversion in his memoir, An American Conversion.
In 1980, Hudson became an Associate Professor in philosophy at Mercer University.[1] Raised as a Protestant, Hudson became a Southern Baptist while attending college, converted to Catholicism in 1984.[4][5]
In 1989, Hudson became a professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, specializing in St. Thomas Aquinas and modern Thomism. He resigned from his tenured position at Fordham in 1995.[6]
In 2003, Hudson was part of the official U.S. delegation to Rome for the 25th anniversary celebration of Pope John Paul II’s papacy.[2]
Hudson is credited with fashioning an outreach to Catholic voters in the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump.[8]
Publishing and media
In 1995, Hudson became publisher of Crisis, a conservative Roman Catholic magazine based in Washington, D.C.[9] He later served as both publisher and editor of Crisis and its online successor, InsideCatholic.com.[2][10]
In 2014, he launched the “Church and Culture” radio series on the Ave Maria Radio Network, and in 2015,[11] he founded The Christian Review, a publication focused on faith and culture.[12]
Hudson has written, edited or contributed to several books. In 2004, he wrote the online guide "How to Vote Catholic".[13] Hudson has written for the Los Angeles Times,[14]Slate.[15] The Wall Street Journal and the Spectator. Among Hudson's activities outside politics is his sponsorship of an annual poetry luncheon at the beginning of Advent each Christmas season.[16]
Publications
Understanding Maritain (ed. with Matthew J. Mancini). Mercer University Press, 1987 ISBN978-0-86554-279-2
The Future of Thomism: The Maritain Sequence (ed. with Dennis William Moran). University of Notre Dame Press, 1992 ISBN0-268-00986-4
Sigrid Undset: On Saints and Sinners (ed.) Ignatius Press, 1994 ISBN0-89870-483-9
Public Catholicism: The Challenge of Living the Faith in a Secular American Culture (contributor). Our Sunday Visitor, 1996 ISBN0-87973-754-9
An American Conversion: One Man's Discovery of Beauty and Truth in Times of Crisis. Crossroad, 2003 ISBN0-8245-2126-9
Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States. Simon & Schuster, 2008 ISBN1-4165-2442-8; PB, 2010 ISBN1-4165-2446-0
"Issues for Catholic Voters, 2012 Edition". Coauthored with Matt Smith. Amazon Digital Services, 2012 ASIN: B0076RXG42
Hudson, Deal W. (September 9, 2019). How to Keep from Losing Your Mind: Educating Yourself Classically to Resist Cultural Indoctrination. TAN Books. ISBN978-1505113525.
Hudson, Deal W. (October 8, 2020). 365 Days of Catholic Wisdom: A Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. Tan Books. ISBN978-1-5051-1714-1.
Schlapp, Matt; Hudson, Deal W. (February 22, 2022). The Desecrators: Defeating the Cancel Culture Mob and Reclaiming One Nation Under God. TAN Books. ISBN978-1-5051-2009-7.
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