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

	November 30th, 2007 Busted: Braddigan (of Dispatch) Mixing song, spirituality and social action Brad Corrigan (aka Braddigan) certainly understands extremes. Dispatch, the trio he formed with college friends in the ...
	November 15th, 2007 Bill on Bruce BustedHalo's editor-in-chief discusses Springsteen's Magic Musician and BustedHalo editor-in-chief, Bill McGarvey, discusses Bruce Springsteen's new album, Magic on a podcast with America magazine's online editor, Tim Reidy. Listen ...
	November 6th, 2007 Busted: Richard Russo The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist discusses fathers, sons, a vanishing America and Bridge of Sighs Some believe him to be the "Bard of Main Street USA." Throughout the six novels he has published since 1986, Richard Russo has created stories of small ...
	October 10th, 2007 Busted: Ryan Gosling The Academy Award nominee talks about his newest film Lars and the Real Girl For the sake of argument, I think it's safe to assume that terms like "anatomically correct sex doll" and "sweet and tenderhearted" have rarely, if ever, appeared ...
	September 20th, 2007 Busted: Kerry Robinson The young director of the Leadership Roundtable makes the connection between faith and best practices It is a tragedy that appears to have no end. Recent announcements of enormous clergy abuse settlements in Los Angeles ($660 million) and San Diego ($198 million) underscore the ...
	August 1st, 2007 Busted: Melinda Henneberger The former New York Times reporter and author of the new book, If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear, talks about politics, abortion, and what women say in private about our political leaders Melinda Henneberger, a former reporter for The New York Times and a former contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, spent 18 months talking to 234 women in 12 states—both "red" and "blue"—about ...
	June 5th, 2007 Busted: Dawn Eden The former rock journalist talks about her conversion and The Thrill of the Chaste BustedHalo: Dawn, you and I have known each other for a long time. I knew you mainly as a rock and roll journalist, who did liner notes for lots of cd ...
	May 24th, 2007 Busted: Bob Abernethy The man behind PBS' "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly" discusses The Life of Meaning After spending more than four decades covering world events for NBC news— including a stint in Moscow between 1989-1994 where he reported on the end of the ...
	April 5th, 2007 Remember Me The Prayer of the Good Thief It is a small scene in Luke's Gospel— all of four verses—but it speaks volumes. Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, "Are you not the Messiah? ...
	March 17th, 2007 Don’t think twice, he’s alright The excerpt below is from an article written by BustedHalo editor-in-chief, Bill McGarvey for the March 17 edition of The Tablet a venerable London-based magazine of "progressive, but responsible ...
	February 23rd, 2007 Busted: Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Apted The star and director of Amazing Grace discuss religion, politics and the life of William Wilberforce Though less-renowned in the United States than in Great Britain, William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a member of Parliament who fought an epic battle for two decades to end the slave trade in the British Empire. ...
	December 1st, 2006 Busted: David Kuo The former Bush staffer discusses his book Tempting Faith and the mutually seductive (and destructive) relationship between faith and politics By the age of thirty, David Kuo was already a seasoned veteran in the highly specialized political warfare that takes place inside the beltway. First as an assistant to ...
	November 29th, 2006 BustedHalo Gets Sirius Fr. Dave Dwyer CSP goes from website to satellite Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, Eminem and now Father Dave? Beginning on Monday December 4, Paulist Father Dave Dwyer will join Sirius satellite radio's growing roster of on-air talent when ...
	November 17th, 2006 The Grace Guide A brief guide to understanding meal blessings this Thanksgiving In uncertain times, we are invariably drawn to absolute truths that help us make sense of the world. One such immutable verity is the ...
	November 16th, 2006 Busted: David Gibson A candid conversation about the papacy with the author of The Rule of Benedict In the wake of the midterm elections that created such a seismic shift in the American political landscape it is easy to forget that, not long ago, the entire ...
	November 9th, 2006 Busted: Andrew Sullivan Faith, doubt and the midterm elections. A conversation with the author of The Conservative Soul. I was a Catholic in a Protestant country. I was a gay boy in the Catholic church. I'm now an immigrant English person who came and made his life ...
	October 6th, 2006 Busted: Fr. Stan Fortuna The Franciscan Friar from the Bronx talks about the release of his third rap album Chances are while you were having a cup of coffee this morning Fr. Stan Fortuna had already produced a new DVD, written a chapter for a book and recorded ...
	October 1st, 2006 Busted: Daniel Ellsberg One of the most important whistle-blowers of the 20th century urges current Pentagon employees not to make the same mistakes he did. He was a Harvard-educated PhD whose star was on the rise in Washington, a trusted adviser to several administrations with access to highly confidential information. All of that changed ...
	July 12th, 2006 Busted: God Girl The God Factor author Cathleen Falsani talks about her spiritual conversations with celebrities ranging from Bono to Elie Wiesel If the general rule in polite company is always to refrain from discussing politics and religion, Chicago Sun Times writer Cathleen Falsani has spent a good deal of her ...
	June 25th, 2006 A Novel Messiah An interview with Tony Hendra, author of The Messiah of Morris Avenue It is 2016 and America, led by President Sparrow 3 (the third member of his family to hold the office), is now an established theocracy. The Academy Awards are ...