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.
“Thomas Merton’s ‘Day of a Stranger’”
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“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” As the months of the pandemic grind on, it becomes more difficult to embrace that essence of Psalm 118.
Previous Columns by David A. King, Ph.D.
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
Through cinema, Chaplin espoused faith in God and humanity.
125 years of cinema, and ‘Of Gods and Men’
Reading Prufrock at Advent
O’Connor and Merton: Two companion books you should know
Thomas Merton and the doors of Corpus Christi Church
Bergman’s ‘Wild Strawberries’ a meditation upon faith and death
‘Twenty Poems to Pray’ connects art and belief
Catholic comedians share the gift of laughter
Hitchcock’s ‘The Wrong Man’ portrays complexity of suffering
Thomas Merton’s elegy for his brother
Pinocchio illustrations of Mussino a gift
‘Blue Bloods’ presents Catholic faith with compassion, realism