Phil Fox Rose is a writer, editor and content lead based in New York. He writes the What Works personal spirituality column at Busted Halo and is assistant coordinator for the New York City chapter of Contemplative Outreach, helping promote centering prayer, which has been his contemplative practice for over 17 years. Phil has also been a political party leader, videographer, tech journalist, punk roadie, software designer, sheepherder, stockbroker and downtempo radio DJ. A common thread is the process of learning about stuff, figuring it out and then sharing that understanding with others. Follow Phil on Facebook here. Or on Twitter here. philfoxrose.com.

	May 24th, 2012 What Works: Pentecost and Boldness in the Holy Spirit The beginning of Acts 2 reads like a breathless passage from a Hollywood screenplay: When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in ...
	May 10th, 2012 What Works: Gossip Why we do it and the harm it does Gossip seems like the main form of entertainment these days. We're bombarded with the ups and downs, the personal embarrassments, of entertainers, politicians, and a ...
	April 26th, 2012 What Works: Building Up Others In preparing to give a presentation on the structures of faith communities, I was just reading 1 Corinthians 12-14. You may, like me, be familiar with ...
	April 19th, 2012 The Integrity of Creation An Earth Day reflection on the link between environmentalism and faith One of the first and key places I encountered the spiritual ideas that eventually led to my baptism was Estes Park, high in the Rockies, ...
	April 12th, 2012 What Works: Waiting patiently One of the most popular columns I’ve ever written is about struggling with being on time. It led to a TV interview and ...
	April 2nd, 2012 One Ha’ Penny, Two Ha’ Penny, Hot Cross Buns Every year, I bring hot cross buns to an Easter brunch gathering of family and friends. Sharing food has always been sacred to me, all the ...
	March 29th, 2012 What Works: The Hunger Games — Is Its Violence Appropriate? I wasn't going to write about The Hunger Games movie – I'm a huge fan of the books and had no advance screening, so I just ...
	March 15th, 2012 What Works: Starting Anew It seems that every year around this time I'm inspired to write about renewal and fresh starts. That's not surprising, of course. The vernal equinox (March 20) is ...
	March 1st, 2012 What Works: Being imperfect doesn’t mean you’re bad, just human Go easy on yourself this Lent I broke my Lenten commitment on day one. On Ash Wednesday, after a difficult day, I trudged right past two people asking for change on my way home, remembering my commitment but in my aggravation ...
	February 22nd, 2012 What Works: What Are You Giving Up for Lent? "What are you giving up for Lent?" is not a question I heard growing up in my atheist home. It’s second nature for most Catholics, though -- to give up some favorite thing (like chocolate ...
	February 2nd, 2012 Re: Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus As the viral video "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus," by Jefferson Bethke, approaches 18 million views, I will add my response ...
	January 19th, 2012 What Works: SOPA, PIPA and the Illusion of Control It was all of 13 minutes after midnight on Tuesday night when I went to look up something in Wikipedia... even though I knew the ...
	January 6th, 2012 What Works: Between acceptance and thirst We are told it is natural to thirst for fulfillment in aligning our life with God's plan for us and to thirst for the kingdom ...
	December 30th, 2011 Faithful Departed: Improper Women — Betty Ford (1918 – 2011) and Amy Winehouse (1983 – 2011) For most of the public history of alcoholism and drug addiction all the way back to Noah, the general impression has been that it is ...
	December 28th, 2011 Faithful Departed: Steve Jobs (1955-2011) Steve Jobs was never a corporate man. The early personal computer industry was an outgrowth of the radical back-to-the-land ethos and even the name "Apple" ...
	December 20th, 2011 Forming A More Perfect Union For families divided by politics or religion, gathering on the holidays provides both challenges and opportunities My relatives are an eclectic bunch, pretty evenly split -- to use crude and somewhat useless political labels -- between Left and Right; our religious diversity includes Catholics, Mormons, evangelicals, United Church of Christ members ...
	December 8th, 2011 What Works: Conscious Gift Shopping Many "alternative" gift articles suggest non-gifts -- things like giving to charity in the person's name, or giving service rather than a thing -- but choosing a present specifically for another person, wrapping it playfully ...
	November 22nd, 2011 What Works: The Gratitude List A helpful tool to encourage a more grateful attitude towards life This is the last column to run before Thanksgiving, so I want to talk to you about gratitude. I could write a dozen columns about gratitude in various forms; for this column, I'm going to ...
	November 4th, 2011 What Works: SAD That DST is Ending Dealing with the shortening days and the end of daylight-saving time Every year, at the beginning of warm weather, I encourage everyone to get out in the sun and experience nature, but it's important ...
	October 20th, 2011 The Way: A Pilgrimage Worth Taking Now available on DVD The Way, written and directed by Emilio Estevez (Bobby) and starring his father, Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now, The West Wing, The Departed), is rather obviously about the spiritual journey. The Camino de Santiago, called "The ...