Answering Google’s Call
Longtime Busted Halo® contributing editor Robert Anthony Siegel recently traveled to Google’s headquarters to participate in the company’s prestigious Authors@Google series with a reading from…
Heaven, Hell or Norman Mailer
Who is God? Is he the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful being of Judeo-Christian thought? Or might he be something less ultimate, more vulnerable? Might he even…
Busted: Peter Bebergal and Scott Korb
The Faith Between Us, by Peter Bebergal and Scott Korb, is the story of a failed Jewish mystic and a would-be Catholic priest who meet…
Mrs. Verena Swann, Spirit Medium
Verena Swann sat in her carriage, peeking through the curtain at the crowd of mourners filling the avenue. Derbies, bonnets, slick black umbrellas, here and…
Somebody’s Jonah
When my son Jonah was born I would look at his pudgy little face with the wisps of brown hair over his head and feel…
Why The Sopranos Still Matters
Will Vito get whacked for wearing leather? Will Paulie forgive his mother for being his aunt? Will Carmela ever succeed in building that million-dollar spec…
The Bible-Belt Jew
Growing up Jewish in New York City, I had no idea that I was a member of a ridiculously small religious minority. That blithe unawareness…
Busted: Rabbi Michael Lerner
FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover once called Michael Lerner the most dangerous man in America because of his anti-Vietnam war activities. A sixties radical and…
Jewish Genius
Who is Jesus? Who is God? Is it possible to discuss them apart from theological abstractions, as personalities with distinctly individual ways of seeing the…
Risking All in Search of the Divine
What would it be like to see the face of God with your own eyes? In the year 1084 St. Bruno of Cologne and six…
