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February 12th, 2011
The viral uprising of Egypt
The revolution was televised -- as well as tweeted, updated and blogged. It began nineteen days ago with the "day of anger", as ...
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February 10th, 2011
The exorcist and Lila Rose
On February 1, Lila Rose's Live Action organization debuted the first video of its biggest scoop yet -- an undercover video "sting" allegedly revealing Planned Parenthood employees aiding a purported sex trafficker. That same day, ...
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February 9th, 2011
Revolution from another perspective
I didn't think Revolution would feel like this. John Lennon, Tracy Chapman and other artists have made it sound so upbeat, so sure of its ...
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January 14th, 2011
A Jesuit comedian looks at reactions to the infamous Doritos ad
Sitting at the dinner table after Mass one evening in those incredibly dewy and pious days of Jesuit novitiate, my novice brother Gary mentioned through a mouthful of broccoli that he thought the best way ...
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January 14th, 2011
Ex-L.A. gang members carry a message of hope to a small Alabama town
For over 20 years, Homeboy Industries has offered a way out of ...
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January 11th, 2011
On the anniversary on the Haiti earthquake, a reflection on the devastation and the hard road back
While putting away the Christmas decorations, I came across my daughter's letter to Santa. Most of her list contained items typical for a 6-year-old: bike ...
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January 5th, 2011
Encounters at the Jon Stewart - Stephen Colbert rally
Ask most any twentysomething in the United States where they get their news from these days, and one of their ...
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December 30th, 2010
(1973-2010)
Hospice.
The word sounds ominous enough when it's spoken in reference to an older person, but when it's used to describe the dying months of a 37-year-old woman, it ...
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December 27th, 2010
Given the painful revelations of the sex scandal, why are Catholic churches not empty?
Every Sunday, all around the globe, a minor miracle is occurring that has gone almost unnoticed: despite continuing revelations about the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, somehow the churches aren’t empty. Despite all ...
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December 19th, 2010
Purifying the Christmas Air
As the days shorten and darkness covers our late afternoons and evenings, we naturally have some extra time to ponder significant moments of our lives. At holiday times, we remember Christmas and New Year celebrations ...
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December 16th, 2010
The most valuable gifts don’t involve frantic trips to the mall
Christmas without spending money, to some, may seem like an impossibly stingy suggestion. However I can guarantee that these five tips will both make your Christmas season less hectic, and probably enrich others much more ...
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December 1st, 2010
Getting your spin on for Chanukah
Welcome to Extreme Sports: Jewish Style. Leave the suicidal snowboarding to the kids; as a rabbi, I'm more of a dreidel blackbelt. While it isn't ...
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November 24th, 2010
What would St. Francis do?
Recently, on a pilgrimage in Italy, I heard a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal relay in a homily one of the many stories of St. ...
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November 5th, 2010
Reflections on fear and faith at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Sitting on a packed Greyhound bus on Friday night, somewhere between Port Authority and Union Station, I panicked. I couldn't breathe; my cell phone was about to die. I was even thankful that the guy ...
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November 3rd, 2010
A group of NY artists create an old-fashioned forum for discussion about the Park51 Islamic center
A group of artists are taking public discourse back to the old days, when all you needed to get your thoughts heard was a pen ...
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October 26th, 2010
How to make Halloween more fun and less foul
It may sound blasphemous, or at least juvenile, but Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Not that it has anything on Christmas, but it's definitely in my top three. When I started my life ...
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October 25th, 2010
Busted Halo’s Editor-in-Chief says goodbye after six years
When I took over as editor-in-chief of Busted Halo in May 2004 we were still living in a web 1.0 world. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter ...
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September 22nd, 2010
Speaking out for the moderate Muslim majority in America
Take a good look at my picture on the right: if you saw me walking around in New York City I look just like any ...
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September 13th, 2010
God and Gospel meet African tradition in the South Carolina Lowcountry
"You sure you want to drive out there?" an 82-year-old farmer warns when I stop to ask for directions on a dusty, rutted road in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. "Ahead are the Gullah islands," ...
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September 10th, 2010
"casas del migrante"
In this video, Giselle interviews Brother William Becerra, of Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, a shelter for deported immigrants. Br. William shares his thoughts and experiences about the immigration issue from the other side of ...
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