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January 31st, 2012
Despite a couple fumbles in the week leading up to the South Carolina primary, and then being routed in that contest by Newt Gingrich, Mitt ...
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January 27th, 2012
GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his tax returns this week, and much of the focus has been on his astronomical income and the ...
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January 19th, 2012
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 ...
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January 16th, 2012
Since I wrote for Busted Halo about Mitt Romney's first run for president in 2008, much has changed in the public landscape regarding knowledge ...
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January 11th, 2012
One woman's work to end human trafficking led her but first to prayer
Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. If you're Joy Brooks, every day is a chance to raise awareness about the horror of modern-day slavery and ...
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January 4th, 2012
The challenging implications of seeing Osama as a fellow child of God
When I learned of Osama bin Laden's death, my immediate reaction was indifference. I didn't share the jubilant response that seemed to be sweeping the ...
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January 4th, 2012
At 13, I walked the halls of my middle school proudly as the smart Egyptian girl who brought in stuffed grape leaves for lunch and ...
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January 2nd, 2012
A Father's Day Reflection
In that cosmically complex and fun butterfly effect way of looking at the world, we may never have been born if it wasn't for Thomas Merton, the world's most prominent Catholic monk and prolific author. ...
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January 1st, 2012
(1915-2011)
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)
Lately I’ve been thinking about the Beatitudes, as well as ...
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December 28th, 2011
(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" ...
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December 26th, 2011
As the year draws to a close, we're reminded of many significant endings in 2011. Here's a short list of what got our (and the ...
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December 20th, 2011
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 ...
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December 15th, 2011
Helpful terms of engagement to maintain holiday cheer
Hollywood families (at least in their writers' imagination) seem to have warm and fuzzy family Christmas dinners. Mine are more complex. Somehow, the relative morality ...
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December 1st, 2011
Poverty is affecting more and more people in today's distressed economy. And young adults are volunteering to work with the poor to help alleviate the imposing challenges they face.
Some turn to formal volunteer service ...
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November 22nd, 2011
Tips to slow down and be grateful
"Thanksgiving Day is coming; gobble, gobble, gobble. Lets give thanks for this day!"
These words are a remnant of the only song about Thanksgiving I remember ...
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November 11th, 2011
In response to a Massachusetts ballot question that would legalize physician-assisted suicide, Boston's Cardinal Seán O'Malley has encouraged the Catholic legal community to ...
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November 8th, 2011
Therapy dogs help a range of people in nursing homes, schools, and even a Barnes & Noble bookstore
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November 4th, 2011
As Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests continue across the country, Busted Halo® went to visit the protest in Zuccotti Park in New York City to see what role people of faith are playing in the ...
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October 13th, 2011
How a recent grad survived joblessness and found direction from a friend
After graduation, mascara barely dry from losing the remaining ties to my old life, I joined my former professor’s weekly networking group. I had been ...
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September 19th, 2011
“I actually enjoyed unemployment.”
I don’t remember who said this to me, but I do remember agreeing. It seems strange to enjoy an unwanted thing, ...
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