Bill McGarvey is co-author of Busted Halo’s Freshman Survival Guide. Bill was editor-in-chief of Busted Halo for six year. In addition to having written extensively on the topics of culture and faith for NPR, Commonweal, America, The Tablet (in London), Factual (Spain), Time Out New York, and Book magazine, McGarvey is a singer/songwriter whose music has been critically acclaimed by the New York Times, Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Billboard and Performing Songwriter. You can follow him at his website billmcgarvey.com or on Facebook.com/billmcgarvey

	April 12th, 2011 Survival Story How the Freshman Survival Guide came to be On the eve of the publication of their book, co-authors Nora Bradbury-Haehl and Bill McGarvey discuss how, over the course of six years, an evening ...
	January 14th, 2011 Alabama Homeboys Ex-L.A. gang members carry a message of hope to a small Alabama town For over 20 years, Homeboy Industries has offered a way out of ...
	November 16th, 2010 Moral Dilemma #3: The Drummer and the Drug Rep — The Wrinkle Now we'd like to complicate the story just a bit more by telling you what happened next... Kara tells Robert to stay where he is and makes him promise not to do anything to hurt himself. ...
	November 9th, 2010 Moral Dilemma #3: The Drummer and the Drug Rep After struggling to put herself through college, Kara landed a good job as a drug representative for a large pharmaceutical company. The job required her to travel to doctor's offices throughout her "territory" in the ...
	October 25th, 2010 Looking Back and Moving Forward… Busted Halo’s Editor-in-Chief says goodbye after six years When I took over as editor-in-chief of Busted Halo in May 2004 we were still living in a web 1.0 world. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter ...
	October 13th, 2010 Moral Dilemma #2: The Best Friend and the Bridesmaid — The Wrinkle Now we'd like to complicate the story just a bit more by telling you what happened next...   The Wrinkle After a few moments silence Michelle tells Beth that she can’t in good conscience stand up in ...
	October 5th, 2010 Moral Dilemma #2: The Best Friend and the Bridesmaid As Beth and Thomas' relationship became serious, Michelle began to be troubled by some of the things Beth would tell her. Few of us are ever faced with making the sorts of life or death decisions ...
	September 30th, 2010 Alabama Homeboys — Additional Text BH: One of the great things in the movie that I think is very powerful is when Luis is holding that little baby; you're smiling as broad as the day and that's a ...
	September 20th, 2010 Moral Dilemma #1: The Banker and the Beggar — The Wrinkle Now we'd like to complicate the story just a bit more by telling you what happened next...   THE WRINKLE Jason takes a deep breath and tells the man that he'd be willing to buy him some hot ...
	September 14th, 2010 Moral Dilemma #1: The Banker and the Beggar Few of us are ever faced with making the sort of life-or-death decisions we routinely hear about in the news. Fortunately, most of us are ...
	August 26th, 2010 Finding Common Ground at Ground Zero Interfaith activist Eboo Patel on the Ground Zero Islamic Center controversy A few months following the September 11 attacks in New York City, Eboo Patel—like countless other Americans—visited ground zero and prayed in memory of those who were murdered. Nearly a decade later Patel—a Muslim-American who ...
	August 24th, 2010 The Patron Saint of Baby Boomers Mother Teresa at 100 As the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta on August 26, 2010 approaches, David Van Biema -- former chief religion writer at TIME and the author and editor of TIME Mother ...
	August 4th, 2010 Lesbian, Catholic and Celibate Eve Tushnet discusses conversion, the theology of friendship and her argument against gay marriage At a time when the issues of homosexuality and religion are creating enormous rifts and clearly defined factions within many faith communities, Eve Tushnet ...
	August 4th, 2010 Eve Tushnet interview outtakes « Return to main interview Busted Halo: It sounds like this was not a huge issue to your family when you came out of the closet, right? ...
	July 1st, 2010 The Modern Priest as Bridge Builder After more than a decade in the Holy Land, Fr. Michael McGarry returns to the U.S. as president of the Paulist Fathers Fr. McGarry discusses his years in the Holy Land and his extensive work on Jewish-Christian relations. The Los Angeles native also touches on the divisions he sees in both American politics and the Catholic Church ...
	May 10th, 2010 One Parent’s Demand for Justice A father's challenge to the head of the US Bishops over the sex abuse scandal continues to resonate When I met David Spotanski at a conference on leadership in the Catholic Church in 2007, my first impression of the Belleville, Ill., native was ...
	March 22nd, 2010 Busted: Mary Karr The Liars' Club author discusses worshipping art, getting sober, becoming Catholic, and writing Lit Considering the harrowing stories of her Texas youth — plagued by the alcohol, drugs, violence and general mayhem she recounted in The Liars' Club (1995) ...
	March 1st, 2010 George Carlin’s Last Words Author Tony Hendra on Carlin's "sortabiography" When George Carlin died in 2008 at the age of 71, American comedy lost one of the sharpest and truest voices it had ...
	January 26th, 2010 Busted: Mary Gordon The renowned novelist and critic on Reading Jesus Having spent more than three decades chronicling Catholic life as an author of novels, short stories, essays, memoirs and biographies, Mary Gordon decided to take ...
	December 31st, 2009 Where’s God? ep4 — 66 Chevy Impala Seeking the sacred dimensions of daily life Faith, spirituality and religion are too often looked upon as the province of “experts” who spend all their time in places of worship with their noses buried deep in holy books. At BustedHalo.com we frequently ...