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October 15th, 2007
The Challenges of Long-Distance Relationships
A few months ago I received a letter from Jeff Klein, a 32-year-old BustedHalo reader. He'd recently begun dating someone who lived seven hours away. Was it feasible to ...
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October 11th, 2007
Sean Penn's Into the Wild stuns and disappoints
How much of your life do you owe to the ones who love you? What are your obligations to the imperfect people who raise and ...
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October 10th, 2007
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 ...
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October 8th, 2007
The new documentary for the Bible tells me so re-examines the scriptural prohibition toward homosexuality
What do Christianity and Judaism say about gays and lesbians? Even the most nominal believer is familiar with the story of Sodom and ...
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September 27th, 2007
The Religious Landscape of People in their 20s and 30s
In many ways, the 18-to-34-year-old crowd is a sought-after demographic. Advertisers continually try to lure young fashionistas, techies and foodies with their cutting-edge wares. Television executives craft sitcoms ...
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September 25th, 2007
Mother Teresa's life in full
Saints are most commonly seen in two dimensions, as they appear in devotional artwork. Frozen in stained glass or canvas, they serenely eye the heavens as their hands ...
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September 20th, 2007
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 ...
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September 19th, 2007
An interview with the media visionary behind
"Faces of Faith"
As both the founder of an online religion blog and a contributor to BustedHalo and other web-based religious news sites like Beliefnet, The Revealer and KillingtheBuddha ...
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September 14th, 2007
The Religious Landscape of People in their 20s and 30s
The publication of Mike Hayes' book Googling God is an important first on a number of levels for everyone involved with BustedHalo. Not only does it mark the ...
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September 11th, 2007
See, I am making all things new
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
"See, the home of God is among mortals.
He will dwell with them;
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September 10th, 2007
My own dark night of the soul in Calcutta
A new book of the letters of Mother Teresa, edited by Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, a Missionaries of Charity priest who is responsible for presenting her case for sainthood to ...
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September 6th, 2007
Talking with the author and NPR correspondent about justice in a post-9/11 America
The Lackawanna Six: Rough Justice in the Age of Terror is the deftly told story of six young men who got caught up in the quickly changing rules ...
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September 6th, 2007
Review: The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror
When I stopped by a Guantanamo protest outside the UN on New York's east side last year, someone abruptly shoved a microphone and note card in my ...
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August 27th, 2007
for my parents
Why should she want to meet the young preacher waiting in the sitting room?
Paused on the landing, she fears his voice drifting up the ...
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August 24th, 2007
A conversation with the author of Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, and Death...
In his new book Sit Down and Shut Up, former Zen Buddhist priest Brad Warner breaks the teachings of Dogen Zenji down into manageable chunks of ...
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August 22nd, 2007
Young Iraqi refugees struggle to find peace and normalcy
"Yalla shebab!" cheered the collection of 14 or so boys as I and a fellow American student danced around the room. Traditional Arabic and Near Eastern dance is often ...
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August 21st, 2007
Why young women can't get enough of Jane
When Jane Austen penned her novels of love and courtship in the early 1800s, she wrote about a world that is utterly foreign to most of us. Unmarried ...
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August 15th, 2007
Commuting with the Blessed Mother
As any commuter knows, you can tell a lot about people by what they do on the subway.
In the early hours of a weekday morning, heading to ...
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August 14th, 2007
Trying to find normal again
As students from all over the country begin returning to their campuses, moving into their dorms and catching up with old friends, the students at Virginia Tech have a different set of tasks. They too ...
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August 7th, 2007
A man from a fundamentalist family, a freethinking woman— what does the future hold?
Their son was dating a heathen. That's what it was, in the end: a woman set to go to Hell and take their son with her by doing ...
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