Part 1: Jesus’ Loneliness & Love & The Da Vinci Code
In late 2005, novelist Anne Rice stopped by BustedHalo’s® offices in New York to promote her book Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt, the…
read moreDealing With a Loved One Who’s Depressed
In my last column I shared a letter from Susan, a longtime reader of Pure Sex, Pure Love, who has been dating a man struggling…
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Hiring Barack Obama
In the early 1980s, when Jerry Kellman interviewed a young, idealistic Ivy League graduate for a $10,000 a year job with Chicago’s Developing Communities Project…
read moreThe Little Trash-Compactor That Could
Even by Hollywood standards the story idea pitched to movie executives for Pixar’s WALL-E must have sounded hallucinogenic: “So we’ve got this robot, but it’s…
read moreThe Comic Book Commandments
“Each painting lays out in black, white, purple and magenta just how present G-D is in all aspects of life.”
read moreStranger than Science Fiction
The book is called Space Vulture, and it’s a far-out, one-of-a-kind project, even by science fiction standards. The cover features a throwback, Flash-Gordon-style photo of…
read moreBusted: Timothy Radcliffe, OP
As he bounds off the stage in his white friar’s habit into the large audience in an Anaheim Convention Center ballroom, Timothy Radcliffe, OP seems…
read moreOxymoron No Longer
It was as if I was a kid again. The gospel choir numbering at least 30 strong lifted their voices to the rooftop. The pulse…
read moreMy Boyfriend’s Back?
My husband isn’t speaking to me. He isn’t speaking to anyone, really. He’s crushed by the Patriots defeat in last night’s SuperBowl. I’m not that…
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