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Peter Kreeft’s Joyful Apologia, by David Paul Deavel – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Peter Kreeft’s Joyful Apologia, by David Paul Deavel

The Growing Conservative Schism and How to Avoid It, by Eric Sammons

November 4, 2025

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November 4, 2025

Peter Kreeft (Image: Ignatius Press / www.ignatius.com. From Calvinist to Catholic By Peter Kreeft Ignatius Press, 2025 Hardcover, 191 pages

By David Paul Deavel, Catholic World Report, Nov. 3, 2025

David Paul Deavel is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX, and Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. The paperback edition of Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West, edited with Jessica Hooten Wilson, is now available in paperback.

From Calvinist to Catholic is a memoir and conversion story recounting what goods Kreeft gained as an Evangelical of Calvinist persuasion and how they were fulfilled in the Catholic Church.

For Catholics, the end of October marked the beginning of Hallowtide—All Hallows’ Eve, or Halloween, All Hallows (All Saints), and All Souls. For Protestant Christians who have maintained some connection with the first Protestants, October 31 is celebrated as Reformation Day, which commemorates Martin Luther’s posting of his Ninety-five Theses.

I grew up celebrating Halloween (the secular version) and, because my parents started attending a Calvinist congregation (Christian Reformed) when I was young, we sometimes attended Reformation Day services. Proudly Calvinist in my teenage years, I argued the questions of predestination and free will with one of my best (Baptist) friends for endless miles while hiking at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. I guess we each won in a way: I later became Catholic, and he a serious Presbyterian. ….

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Peter Kreeft’s Joyful Apologia, by David Paul Deavel

The Growing Conservative Schism and How to Avoid It, by Eric Sammons

Report: Foreign Charities Have Pumped $2 Billion Into U.S.-Based Leftist Groups, by Shawn Fleetwood

By David Paul Deavel, Catholic World Report, Nov. 3, 2025

From Calvinist to Catholic is a memoir and conversion story recounting what goods Kreeft gained as an Evangelical of Calvinist persuasion and how they were fulfilled in the Catholic Church.

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