Deal W. Hudson

Deal Wyatt Hudson (born November 20, 1949) is an American conservative political activist.

Hudson is the former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine and InsideCatholic.com. He is currently president of the Morley Institute for Church and Culture. Hudson also hosts the radio show Church and Culture on Ave Maria Radio and serves as publisher and editor of The Christian Review.

Hudson is the former Chairman and founder of Catholic Advocate. In September, 2020, Hudson was named a Senior Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Institute in Sacramento, California.

Biography Hudson was born in Denver, Colorado. He attended the University of Texas-Austin and converted to Catholicism in 1984. He discusses this conversion in his memoir, An American Conversion.

In 1980, Hudson became an Associate Professor in philosophy at Mercer University.

He served as president of the American Maritain Association from 1984 to 1994 and was chairman of the American Academy for Liberal Education from 1996 to 2005. President Bush appointed him to the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation.

Publishing and media In 1995, Hudson became publisher of Crisis, a conservative Roman Catholic magazine based in Washington, D.C. He later served as both publisher and editor of Crisis and its online successor, InsideCatholic.com.

In 2014, he launched the “Church and Culture” radio series on the Ave Maria Radio Network, and in 2015, he founded The Christian Review, a publication focused on faith and culture.

Hudson has written, edited or contributed to several books. In 2004, he wrote the online guide "How to Vote Catholic". Hudson has written for the Los Angeles Times, Slate. The Wall Street Journal and the Spectator. Among Hudson's activities outside politics is his sponsorship of an annual poetry luncheon at the beginning of Advent each Christmas season.

Publications Understanding Maritain (ed. with Matthew J. Mancini). Mercer University Press, 1987 The Future of Thomism: The Maritain Sequence (ed. with Dennis William Moran). University of Notre Dame Press, 1992 Sigrid Undset: On Saints and Sinners (ed.) Ignatius Press, 1994 Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction. Rowman & Littlefield, 1995 ; PB Public Catholicism: The Challenge of Living the Faith in a Secular American Culture (contributor). Our Sunday Visitor, 1996 An American Conversion: One Man's Discovery of Beauty and Truth in Times of Crisis. Crossroad, 2003 Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States. Simon & Schuster, 2008 ; PB, 2010 "Issues for Catholic Voters, 2012 Edition". Coauthored with Matt Smith. Amazon Digital Services, 2012 ASIN: B0076RXG42