David C. Hajduk, Ph.D. has over thirty years of experience in religious education and pastoral
ministry, including youth, family life, and pro-life ministries. David did his doctoral work in
Theology at Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, England, and wrote his dissertation on the
thought of St. John Paul II. Since 1998, he has been a member of the Theology Department at
Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey, where he also served for twenty years as the
Director of Mission and Ministry. David has worked as an Adjunct Professor of Moral Theology
at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology at Seton Hall University since 2008. In
2019, David became the Director of Theology for Array of Hope, a ministry of the new
evangelization that shares the beauty and truth of the Catholic faith through high quality media
and events. David is responsible for reviewing and creating program content, writing blogs, and
giving talks. He is the co-producer of Array of Hope’s popular A Reason for Hope podcast,
featuring interviews with renowned Catholic personalities and segments unpacking the truths of
the Catholic Faith.
David is an acclaimed speaker, having given keynote addresses at conferences, presentations to
high schools and colleges, and parish talks to both youth and adult audiences, as well as having
led diocesan training workshops and marriage preparation catechetical days. He specializes in
topics related to the sanctity of life and marriage, theological anthropology, and the philosophical
and theological foundations of the contemporary “crisis of truth.” David is the author of God’s
Plan for You: Life, Love, Marriage & Sex (Pauline Books & Media, 2006, 2018), a book for
teens on St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body which received the Catholic Press Association
of the United States & Canada Book Award in 2007, and Healing the Culture and the Family
according to John Paul II (Arouca Press, 2022), an academic work demonstrating how John Paul
II’s theological anthropology was constructed to remedy a collection of errors of Cartesian
Rationalism John Paul II referred to as a “New Manichaeism.” Healing the Culture and the
Family has been endorsed by a list of internationally recognized theologians, among them world-
renown scholars of John Paul II’s work: Dr. John Grabowski, Dr. Jaroslaw Kupczak, O.P., and
Dr. Deborah Savage (who wrote the foreword).
David resides in Belvidere, New Jersey. He and his wife, Shannon, have 11 children and
homeschool.
Education
Ph.D., Theology, Maryvale Ecclesiastical Institute/Liverpool Hope University (2016)
M.A., Theology, Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology (2003)
B.A., Religious Studies and Philosophy, Seton Hall University (1993)
Publications
Healing the Culture and the Family according to John Paul II, Arouca Press (2022), book
“The New Manichaeism and How to Defeat It,” Homiletic & Pastoral Review (2011), article
Protecting Your Purity: Help from St. Thomas Aquinas and the Angelic Warfare Confraternity,
New Hope Publications (2009), book
God’s Plan for You: Life, Love, Marriage & Sex, Pauline Books & Media (2006, 2018), book
“A Disembodied Critique: How One Theologian Errs in his Criticism of the Pope’s Teaching,”
This Rock (2001), article