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.

	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 ...
	January 2nd, 2012 Gaga and Judas And why the Gaga haters hate her The video for Lady Gaga's song "Judas" has premiered, ending weeks of speculation stirred up by several religious spokespeople who denounced it before seeing it. The video is set in a motorcycle gang; Jesus is ...
	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 Opening nationwide this weekend 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 ...
	October 7th, 2011 What Works: Lessons from Steve Jobs I probably should have had an obit for Steve Jobs ready to run. We had a dry run when he resigned as head of Apple ...
	September 29th, 2011 What Works: Cultivating presence I often hear people talking about living in the present moment as if it is a struggle, some cosmic ...
	September 15th, 2011 What Works: Waiting Patiently Follow-up and Martha and Mary My last column, about waiting patiently for a late bus, provoked some interesting comments and reactions (on the site and directly) that tease out the bigger ...
	August 25th, 2011 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, ...
	August 18th, 2011 YouCat, a Compelling New Way of Approaching the Catechism Busted Halo sits down with the new youth catechism's publisher Everyone registered for World Youth Day is getting a free copy of YouCat in their native language as part of their registration packet, as it is officially introduced in Madrid. When YouCat was launched back ...
	August 11th, 2011 What Works: The PALA Active Lifestyle Challenge You have just enough time left if you act now to join me in the Million PALA Challenge -- a national campaign to get ...
	August 1st, 2011 What Works: Vacation Advice from the Pope The pope has made several comments this year concerning vacations, which were highlighted in a piece on the Vatican Radio website. Summer is halfway over already, but ...
	July 14th, 2011 What Works: Regular Meals One of the things I notice whenever I spend time on retreat at a monastery (as I did a few weeks ago) is how much ...
	June 15th, 2011 What Works: How Sweet to Do Nothing Give yourself the gift of time with no goals -- on retreat, on vacation and at home Our new level of connectedness is a wonderful thing -- perhaps the greatest blessing technology has brought us. But it has created a new problem. In this hyper-connected world, time in which you can do ...