Deal W. Hudson
Deal W. Hudson is the director of the Morley Institute for Church & Culture, and is the former publisher and editor of CRISIS Magazine, a Catholic monthly published in Washington, DC.
He is the author of six books: Understanding Maritain: Philosopher and Friend (Mercer, 1988); The Future of Thomism (Notre Dame, 1992); Sigrid Undset On Saints and Sinners (Ignatius, 1994); Happiness and the Limits of Satisfaction (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and How to Vote Catholic (Morley, 2004). His autobiography, An American Conversion (Crossroad, 2003), is available from Amazon.com.
His book on religion and politics will be published by Simon & Schuster in October, 2007.
His articles and comments have been published in many newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, National Review, The Village Voice, Roll Call, National Journal, and The Economist.
He appears regularly on television shows such as NBC Nightly News, The O'Reilly Factor, The Beltway Boys, C-Span's Washington Journal, and Hannity and Colmes, and on radio programs such as "All Things Considered" on National Public Radio.
Before coming to CRISIS Magazine and the Morley Institute, he taught philosophy for fifteen years. He was associate professor of Philosophy at Fordham University from 1989 to 1995 and was a visiting professor at New York University for five years. He taught for nine years at Mercer University in Atlanta, where he was chair of the philosophy department.
Hudson has a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Texas-Austin, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University.
He, his wife Theresa, daughter Hannah, and son Ciprian live in Fairfax, VA.
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Patrick Hynes
Patrick Hynes the author of In Defense of the Religious Right (Nelson Current). He is the founder and proprietor of the blog Ankle Biting Pundits.
Patrick lives in New Hampshire with his wife Michelle and their daughters Rose (2) and Grace (newborn). Patrick’s other writings have been published in the New York Post, the Financial Times, USA Today, the American Spectator, Townhall.com, TCS Daily, the Concord Monitor, and the New Hampshire Union Leader, among other venues.
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Marjorie Murphy Campbell
Marjorie Murphy Campbell is a mother and attorney, a former criminal and bankruptcy litigator and professor of law. She holds degrees from Rutgers College, the University of Virgina and Georgetown University. She has taught at McGeorge Law School and the University of Cincinnati School of Law. Marjorie sits on the boards of The Marbill Foundation, St. Vincent de Paul School and The Serra Preschool, a Catholic preschool founded by Marjorie and her husband. Currently a student of Canon Law at Catholic University, Marjorie speaks on range of social topics from a Catholic perspective. She lives with her family in San Francisco and belongs to the parish of St. Vincent de Paul.
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Craig E. Richardson
For more than a decade, Richardson has provided strategic fundraising services to political clients, including serving as a chief fundraiser for former Majority Leader Tom DeLay from 1995 until his recent retirement. He has also raised money for Senator Sam Brownback’s Leadership PAC and for the re-election campaigns of Congressman Jon Porter and former Congressman Steve Largent. In addition, he set-up and served as Executive Director for Leadership for America’s Future PAC (LEADPAC), a PAC founded by Largent in 1999, and he co-managed his bid for Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1998.
Richardson has also raised millions of dollars for non-profit organizations over the past decade. His past and present clients include The DeLay Foundation for Kids and Celebrations for Children, two charities aimed at helping abused and neglected children. In addition, he raised money for the Ripon Educational Fund, an American non-profit organization that promotes dialogue between U.S. and European government officials through an annual high-level conference in a major European city. He also served as Executive Director of the American-Danish Business Council, a group he helped establish at the request of the Danish Embassy. Finally, he co-founded and ran Catholic Impact USA, a grassroots organization aimed at energizing faithful Catholics to become involved in the political process.
Richardson began his career in 1984 when he worked on Secretary Elliot Richardson’s U.S. Senate campaign in Massachusetts. From there he served as a Research Analyst for the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington, and returned to Boston to work at a regional public relations and advertising agency. He then returned to Washington to serve as an Account Supervisor for a national public relations firm. In 1993, he started his own political fundraising and communications business before co-founding Washington Strategies, where he worked for nearly 10 years. In 2002, he sold his interest in Washington Strategies and joined the lobbying and government affairs firm, DCI Associates, as Vice President. He returned to self-employment in November 2003 when he founded Richardson Consulting.
Richardson received a Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College and graduated Magna cum Laude from Notre Dame Graduate School with a Master of Arts in Theological Studies. He is also a board member of the Men's Leadership Forum, a fellowship organization for professional men, and of the St. Peter Claver Society, a group seeking to help African children orphaned by the HIV-AIDs epidemic. Richardson currently serves as the PTO president for St. John the Beloved Academy Catholic School in McLean, Virginia, where his two sons are enrolled. He is also an active member of the parish, where he is a lector, altar server, RCIA teacher, and member of the Parish Council.
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Connie Marshner
Connie Marshner is or has been a pro-life, pro-family writer, editor, grassroots organizer, trainer, fundraiser, political strategist and lobbyist over the past 30 years. Early in the 1980’s, an irate feminist author called Connie “the most influential woman on the right” because of her work organizing a pro-family coalition across denominational and party lines. Conservative icon Paul Weyrich has called her the student of whom he is most proud.
She began her career in the early 1970’s working with Paul Weyrich as he developed the “Kasten Plan” for conservatives to win election campaigns through grassroots organization. In 1979, she founded the Family Protection Report which quickly became the premier social issues watchdog on the right, monitoring government policy on life, family and culture, and alerting grassroots Americans of how government policies were undermining the family.
In 1979, Connie organized pro-family involvement in the White House Conference on Families, and in 1980 led the walkout of conservatives from that conference. She was Chairman of the Reagan/Bush Campaign’s Family Policy Advisory Board in 1980.
As Chair of the National Pro-Family Coalition, she continued to organize and train grassroots pro-family activists and lobby on social issues. She was a media spokeswoman for those issues, at different times debating luminaries such as George McGovern and Rev. Congressman Robert Drinan, S.J. When the first “Gay Rights” legislation was introduced into Congress, Connie was the only person to testify against it.
Connie has been married since 1973 to Dr. William H. Marshner, one of the founding faculty of Christendom College.
