David A. King, Ph.D. News & Columns
David A. King, Ph.D. is professor of English and film studies at Kennesaw State University and director of OCIA at Holy Spirit Church, Atlanta.
David A. King, Ph.D.
“A Fountain Not Made by the Hands of Men: 60 Years of The Grateful Dead”
English
This is a column I wanted to write 10 years ago, but it took a man I’ll call Cosmic Charlie to make me finally write it.
Previous Columns by David A. King, Ph.D.
Remembering the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon and America’s exit from Vietnam
Passing the Dragon: Revisiting Flannery O’Connor’s True Country after 100 years
T.S. Eliot’s ‘Ash Wednesday’ as compass and comfort in Lent
Looking back and looking ahead: Catholic cultural milestones for 2025
Five poems for a Christmas creche in verse
‘Time and the bell have buried the day:’ Pro football and gratitude for the liturgical year
Don Quixote and the Catholic imagination for All Hallows,’ All Saints’ and All Souls’
Flannery O’Connor and Lourdes: Little voices that make a difference
‘The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes’ a highlight of Tissot’s Life of Christ series
Mystery, mistakes and miracles: practicing golf and Catholicism
‘Wildcat’ brilliantly Captures O’Connor’s vocation and vision
Speaking of Language: Arthur Quinn’s classic rhetoric text ‘Figures of Speech’
St. Justin Martyr’s timeless description of the Mass in the early church
70 years later ‘On the Waterfront’ testifies to the importance of truth
Professor Victor A. Kramer: Teacher, mentor, scholar and friend to Atlanta Catholics
‘No curtain, no scenery’: At 85 ‘Our Town’ Endures in the Catholic imagination
Lasting Halloween mystery is in the Liturgy of the Word
The Universal Prayer of Pope Clement XI
Thomas Merton’s ‘Original Child Bomb’ and the Oppenheimer film