Deal W. Hudson

Deal Wyatt Hudson (born November 20, 1949) is an American conservative political activist. Former publisher and editor of Crisis Magazine and InsideCatholic.com from 1996-2011. Currently president of the Morley Institute for Church and Culture and currently hosts live radio show and writes a daily column for Inside Catholic. He is the former Chairman and founder of Catholic Advocate. Among others authored, Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States (2008). Since 2000, Hudson's chief political activity has been to help organize the Catholic vote in support of conservative and Republican candidates.

Life

Hudson was born in Denver, Colorado. Raised as a Protestant, Hudson became a Southern Baptist in college at the University of Texas-Austin before converting to Catholicism in 1984, as detailed in his memoir An American Conversion. He has written, edited or contributed to several other books, and in 2004 he wrote the online guide "How to Vote Catholic". Hudson has written as well for the Los Angeles Times and for Slate. as well as the Wall Street Journal and the Spectator.