Fr. Dave Dwyer, CSP, is Director of Busted Halo®, a media and ministry outreach to Catholics in their twenties and thirties created by the Paulist Fathers. He is also the host of “The Busted Halo® Show with Father Dave Dwyer,” a call-in radio talk show airing five nights a week on Sirius XM Satellite Radio on which he answer listeners’ questions about faith and the Church for nearly twenty million subscribers (7-10 p.m. Eastern time on The Catholic Channel, Sirius 159 / XM 117). Father Dave is frequently invited to speak to parishes, dioceses and ministry organizations around the U.S. and in Canada about reconnecting young adults to the Catholic Church. He has offered commentary on or been profiled by NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Fox & Friends, CNN, The New York Times, The Today Show, The History Channel, Newsweek, The Washington Times, WCBS-TV and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Father Dave has previously served in campus ministry at the University of Colorado and the University of Texas, and worked with the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, to develop and produce a multi-media young adult peer ministry program called Catholics Seeking Christ. He is popular with young adults because of his dynamic and relevant preaching in person and downloaded as podcasts. He was ordained a Paulist priest in May 2000, but prior to answering the call to priesthood he produced and directed television programs for MTV and Comedy Central, and as an on-air personality for a hit music radio station he was known to listeners as “Happy Dave.” He holds a Masters of Divinity from the Catholic University of America and a Bachelor of Science degree in communication from Syracuse University. For more details on Fr. Dave’s move from the world of television, check out our “Busted” profile of him.
Barbara Wheeler is Editor-in-Chief of Busted Halo®. Barbara graduated from Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Pa., with a degree in journalism and public relations. After college Barbara moved to Jackson, Miss., and was part of a young adult volunteer program that blended service, faith and social justice. This experience led her to New York City to pursue a career in the nonprofit sector that would also incorporate her journalism background. Before arriving at Busted Halo® Barbara was editor-in-chief of Response, the magazine of United Methodist Women, and oversaw an award-winning redesign that targeted a younger demographic. At Busted Halo Barbara combines her skills in writing, editing, and communications with a passion for inviting young adults to reconnect with their faith. Barbara is currently serving as the chairperson of her parish council.
Photo: Sari Henry 2009
Phil Fox Rose writes the What Works personal spirituality column and is content manager at Busted Halo. In addition to his work here, Phil is the assistant coordinator of Contemplative Outreach in New York City and leads the centering prayer group at St. Ignatius Loyola on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Before Busted Halo, Phil was Content Director for Housing Works. He’s been a national columnist for Computer Reseller News and The Green Paper, and has held senior editorial positions at several national magazines. Phil was Director of Product Design at digital radio company Clickradio, and has also been a political party leader, videographer, web developer, tech journalist, punk roadie, software designer, sheepherder, stockbroker and downtempo radio DJ. philfoxrose.com. Follow Phil on Twitter here.
Joe is the head video producer and art editor for Busted Halo. After graduating from Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas, with a degree in production and religion, Joe spent time teaching on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, exploring the film and music scene of Chicago, and surviving the world of corporate video and event production in New York City. Before discovering Busted Halo, Joe was an education and community resource volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps for two years in South Africa, working in schools on curriculum, and in the community to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and education.
Mike co-founded BustedHalo.com in December 2001. In addition to his work at Busted Halo, Mike is a campus minister at St. Joseph University Parish which serves the South Campus of the University at Buffalo. A frequent speaker on ministering to young adults, Mike is the author of Googling God: The Religious Landscape of People in their 20s and 30s with Paulist Press. In 2002, Mike received a Catholic Press Association Award for his article “Transformation and the 20′s and 30′s Crowd” that appeared in Share the Word magazine. Before working in ministry, Mike produced radio talk shows at WFAN and WOR in New York and also covered major league baseball for NPR and WOR. Mike and his wife, Marion, are residents of Amherst, New York where they live with their dog, Haze.
Bill McGarvey is co-author of Busted Halo’s® Freshman Survival Guide. Bill was editor-in-chief of Busted Halo for six year. Before that, he was managing editor of Book, an entertainment magazine that covered the publishing industry. In addition to Book, his articles and reviews have appeared in Time Out New York, Commonweal, The Tablet of London and America magazine. Bill is also a singer/songwriter who has released several albums both as a solo artist and with his former band Valentine Smith that have been critically acclaimed by publications ranging from the New York Times and the Washington Post to Billboard. His music has appeared in both films and network television. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. Check out BillMcGarvey.com or myspace.com/billmcgarvey for more information.
Nora Bradbury-Haehl is co-author of Busted Halo’s® Freshman Survival Guide. She is the youth minister at St. Paul’s Church in the Diocese of Rochester, NY and author of ScriptureWalk: Discipleship with St. Mary’s Press. She has been in youth and young adult ministry for 18 years, been married for 16 years and has four children.
A 2005 graduate of the University of San Diego, Marc spent a year as a JVC volunteer in New York City. In addition to his work on BustedHalo.com, Marc has assisted with the BustedHalo Show on SIRIUS Satellite radio and currently works full-time for BBC’s “World News America” in Washington, DC.
Jeff Guhin is pursuing a doctoral degree in sociology at Yale University. He has written for America magazine and is currently editing a book about young adult Catholics. While a student at Loyola University New Orleans, he was an activist for the Moratorium Campaign and an organization for Jesuit college and university student activists. He has lived at a Catholic Worker House in Boston, MA and worked as a community organizer in Bridgeport, CT and as a caseworker in the South Bronx, NY.
Trish Muyco-Tobin has been a journalist and writer for print, radio and television for almost 15 years. She is the senior writer for Ladue News in St. Louis, and is associate producer and writer for an upcoming reality TV show called DA GRIND. She has served as news editor, anchor and reporter for KMOX and KTRS Radios in St. Louis and KBIA Radio and KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri. She was also the executive producer of a number of award-winning programs for the CONTACT Radio Program. Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Trish came to the United States with her family as a teenager in 1985. She resides in St. Louis with her husband David.
Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of All Will Be Revealed (MacAdam/Cage) and All the Money in the World (Random House). He was born in New York City and educated at Harvard, the University of Tokyo, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, where he lives with his wife, the writer Karen E. Bender, and their two children. He has received fellowships from the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown. He can be reached at his website: robertanthonysiegel.com.
Dr. Christine B. Whelan wites the Pure Sex, Pure Love relationship advice column. She is an author, professor and speaker. Christine and her husband, Peter, and their dictator cats, Chairman Meow and Evita Purron, live in Pittsburgh. She is the author of Generation WTF: From “What the #%$&” to a Wise, Tenacious, and Fearless You (February, 2011), Marry Smart: The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to True Love (Simon & Schuster, 2009), and Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women (Simon & Schuster, 2006). Christine has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times, and has appeared live on television and radio programs across the nation. She writes a monthly column on everyday virtues for BigQuestionsOnline. For more, visit christinewhelan.com.
