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 RCIA at Holy Spirit Church, Atlanta.
David A. King, Ph.D.
“Those Winter Sundays”
English
February has always been one of my favorite months. The great celebratory liturgical seasons of Christmas and Epiphany come to an end, and we acknowledge Candlemas, the presentation of the Infant Jesus in the temple, when Anna and Simeon in their old age were allowed a glimpse of God’s promise fulfilled.
Previous Columns by David A. King, Ph.D.
Wish Book for Christmas: Letters to Santa from great Catholic artists
St. Teresa, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thanksgiving
The cultural problem of Halloween for Catholics
‘Sunderland ‘Til I Die’
Fear and anxiety in Hitchcock’s universe
Father Norman O’Connor: The Jazz Priest
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’
‘Signs’ a brilliant look at responding to the unexpected
The Library Card episode in Richard Wright’s ‘Black Boy’
A Catholic considers ‘Star Wars’
Faith, reason and Santa Claus
Thomas Merton’s ‘Day of a Stranger’
Enduring human nature in Chaucer’s ‘The Miller’s Tale’
The minister’s black veil
Sheltered in place with Van Gogh and Gauguin
Absurdity and Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’
Dr. Maria Montessori and her method
Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper and ‘The Pride of the Yankees’
The displaced person