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.
“Graduation, mystagogy and St. John of the Cross ”
English
Another graduation season is upon us. Across the archdiocese, colleges have already held their commencement ceremonies. Soon the high schoolers will graduate. This being the 21st century, even the elementary school children observe some formal rite of passage.
Previous Columns by David A. King, Ph.D.
Harriet Monroe, Joyce Kilmer and Poetry Magazine
Batman and Catholicism
Those Winter Sundays
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’