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April 13th, 2010
My visit to Mumbai's red light district
So this is where my work for Catholic Relief Services had led me: to a brothel. I was in the middle of a red light district in the go-go city of Mumbai on India's west ...
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April 12th, 2010
What Works columnist Phil Fox Rose is interviewed about being on time on NET TV and responds to reader comments
Recently, I was interviewed for the show Currents on the NET TV network about the spirituality of being on time. Watch the video right here on this page; I've queued it up to my segment ...
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April 9th, 2010
A 103-year-old woman, a therapy dog and a friendship
My dog Jessie is a therapy dog — meaning she is trained to bring comfort and companionship to those who need it. We visit a ...
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April 8th, 2010
Former Pedro the Lion frontman's Curse Your Branches
In the spring of 2007, I was asked as an alumnus of Geneva College (a small Reformed Presbyterian liberal arts college 30 minutes northwest of ...
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April 6th, 2010
Accompanying undocumented immigrants who are in prison
On a recent Saturday morning a minivan weaves through the warehouse district of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a port city an hour south of New York. ...
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April 5th, 2010
A reader asks whether she should become Catholic for her boyfriend
A few weeks back, a reader wrote in with a powerful question: She had been drawn to the Catholic Church because of her boyfriend. Should ...
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March 31st, 2010
A Good Friday Reflection
Though Good Friday is the most solemn day on the liturgical calendar, for much of my early life it was difficult for me to connect ...
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March 31st, 2010
After our Lent Calendar is finished you can still count on us for daily reflection and prayer
Thanks to tremendous word of mouth from you, our readers — not to mention great coverage from USA Today and other national media and ...
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March 30th, 2010
A Lenten Lament
I've never been to an AA meeting, but feel like the mantra is appropriate here in admitting to the world, "My name is Carolyn and ...
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March 29th, 2010
Devoting a day to faith, family, friends and food
When I was growing up, Sunday was a day for leisure and family. My atheist father did his version of worship: reading the Sunday New ...
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March 24th, 2010
Travel along the Camino de Santiago with our Busted Halo pilgrims without leaving your home
Day #5: Journey's End
The pilgrims complete their Camino and arrive at the 11th century St. James Cathedral, burial site of St. James the Apostle, to place their hands ...
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March 24th, 2010
There's "cool" and then there's real cool
One of the odd and unusual places I find the presence of God is in cool. Yes, cool.
I'm not talking about Don Draper charisma, ...
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March 22nd, 2010
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) ...
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March 22nd, 2010
A new social history says that the women were given the burden for making 20th century marriages work. Whose responsibility is it today?
If I told you that "relationships take work," you'd roll your eyes. That's so obvious to all of us in 2010 that it barely counts ...
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March 16th, 2010
Editor-in-Chief Bill McGarvey hosts a weekly edit meeting with readers and listeners this Friday at LA Congress
Every week in our editorial meeting we bring together the great minds of our Busted Halo crew to talk about what we've been doing on ...
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March 16th, 2010
My imperceptible and awkward conversion
Among the seekers at inquiry sessions and the candidates and catechumens in Sunday RCIA classes, one's Personal Faith Journey is currency. It is asked for ...
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March 15th, 2010
Renewal is possible at any time
The vernal equinox, Easter, Passover and the Iranian New Year are approaching. And this column marks the one-year anniversary of What Works. So I want to talk about renewal, fresh starts. (But first, thank you ...
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March 12th, 2010
California Week: March 14 - 22, 2010
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March 11th, 2010
Making the case for moving beyond your own personal God
Everybody seems to be spiritual these days — from your college roommate, to the person in the office cubicle next to yours, to every other ...
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March 9th, 2010
The Princess, The Priest and the War for the Perfect Wedding Episode 13
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