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.
“King, Merton profoundly sensed providential, urgent time”
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1968 is arguably the most tumultuous year in modern American social history. That terrible year began with the massive Tet Offensive in Vietnam, a series of coordinated attacks by the Viet Cong that resulted in the deaths of thousands and provoked a radical reversal of public opinion in the United States about the war, even […] English
Previous Columns by David A. King, Ph.D.
Late movie critic explicated ‘what it means to be fully human’
In ‘The Spirit of the Liturgy,’ Guardini expresses the ‘joy of Mass’
William Gildea’s ‘Colts’ sports memoir evokes Baltimore’s Catholicism
Merton’s shining ‘epiphanies’ of light and insight
Jack Webb’s classic police dramas depicted a Catholic view of right and wrong
Bergman’s ‘The Seventh Seal’ ranks as masterpiece on the ‘mystery of death’
‘Bicycle Thieves’ a film masterpiece that voices ‘the cry of the poor’
Artist captured ‘the essence’ of the Vatican II spirit
Catholic artists and their ‘deathbed conversions’
The heart of Barrett’s ‘The Lilies of the Field’
O’Connor’s book reviews reveal her life, wit
Discovering the Catholic in Jack Kerouac, author of the Beat Generation
Children’s book illuminates Catholic faith
A real life fairy tale: ‘Brother Joseph and the Ave Maria Grotto’
McLuhan’s still current media theory ‘deeply rooted in Catholicism’
A view of “The Godfather Trilogy” from a Catholic perspective
Artist Georges Rouault’s Celebration Of Life
Powers’ ‘The Last Catholic in America’ depicts church of the past
Leone’s uniquely Catholic spaghetti Westerns