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.
“Bishop Barron’s new film series ‘Pivotal Players’ is fantastic sequel to ‘Catholicism’”
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I have been a Catholic for half my life. Prior to my conversion, I was raised in a fairly progressive Southern Baptist church, pastored at one time by one of the clergymen to whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed his famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” I was taught then, from childhood, not only a […] English
Previous Columns by David A. King, Ph.D.
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‘The Grunt Padre’ offers lesson of sainthood, sacrifice
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