Fr. Dave Dwyer, CSP, is Director of Busted Halo®, a media and ministry outreach to Catholics in their twenties and thirties created by the Paulist Fathers. He is also the host of “The Busted Halo® Show with Father Dave Dwyer,” a call-in radio talk show airing five nights a week on Sirius XM Satellite Radio on which he answer listeners’ questions about faith and the Church for nearly twenty million subscribers (7-10 p.m. Eastern time on The Catholic Channel, Sirius 159 / XM 117). Father Dave is frequently invited to speak to parishes, dioceses and ministry organizations around the U.S. and in Canada about reconnecting young adults to the Catholic Church. He has offered commentary on or been profiled by NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Fox & Friends, CNN, The New York Times, The Today Show, The History Channel, Newsweek, The Washington Times, WCBS-TV and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Father Dave has previously served in campus ministry at the University of Colorado and the University of Texas, and worked with the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, to develop and produce a multi-media young adult peer ministry program called Catholics Seeking Christ. He is popular with young adults because of his dynamic and relevant preaching in person and downloaded as podcasts. He was ordained a Paulist priest in May 2000, but prior to answering the call to priesthood he produced and directed television programs for MTV and Comedy Central, and as an on-air personality for a hit music radio station he was known to listeners as “Happy Dave.” He holds a Masters of Divinity from the Catholic University of America and a Bachelor of Science degree in communication from Syracuse University. For more details on Fr. Dave’s move from the world of television, check out our “Busted” profile of him.
Before coming to BustedHalo.com, Bill McGarvey was the managing editor of Book, an entertainment magazine that covered the publishing industry. In addition to Book, his articles and reviews have appeared in Time Out New York, Commonweal, The Tablet of London and America magazine. Bill is also a singer/songwriter who has released several albums both as a solo artist and with his former band Valentine Smith that have been critically acclaimed by publications ranging from the New York Times and the Washington Post to Billboard. His music has appeared in both films and network television. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. Check out BillMcGarvey.com or myspace.com/billmcgarvey for more information.
Mike co-founded BustedHalo.com in December 2001. In addition to his work at BustedHalo, Mike is a campus minister at The State University of New York at Buffalo. A frequent speaker on ministering to young adults, Mike is the author of Googling God: The Religious Landscape of People in their 20s and 30s with Paulist Press. In 2002, Mike received a Catholic Press Association Award for his article “Transformation and the 20’s and 30’s Crowd” that appeared in Share the Word magazine.
Before working in ministry, Mike produced radio talk shows at WFAN and WOR in New York and also covered major league baseball for NPR and WOR. Mike and his wife, Marion, are residents of Queens, New York.
Photo: Sari Henry 2009
Phil was Content Director for Housing Works; before that, Director of Product Design at digital radio company Clickradio. Before that, Phil held senior editorial positions at several national magazines.
Phil is or has been an editor of words and video, a political party leader, a Camaldolese oblate, a downtempo electronic DJ, a sheepherder, technology pundit, stockbroker and software designer. He lives, writes and edits in New York’s East Village, half a block from where he managed a record store as a teenager.
Jeff Guhin is pursuing a doctoral degree in sociology at Yale University. He has written for America magazine and is currently editing a book about young adult Catholics. While a student at Loyola University New Orleans, he was an activist for the Moratorium Campaign and an organization for Jesuit college and university student activists. He has lived at a Catholic Worker House in Boston, MA and worked as a community organizer in Bridgeport, CT and as a caseworker in the South Bronx, NY.
A 2005 graduate of the University of San Diego, Marc spent a year as a JVC volunteer in New York City. In addition to his work on BustedHalo.com, Marc has assisted with the BustedHalo Show on SIRIUS Satellite radio and currently works full-time for BBC’s “World News America” in Washington, DC.
Nora Bradbury-Haehl is the youth minister at St. Paul’s Church in the Diocese of Rochester, NY and author of ScriptureWalk: Discipleship with St. Mary’s Press. She has been in youth and young adult ministry for 18 years, been married for 16 years and has four children.
Renee LaReau is the author of Getting a Life: How to Find Your True Vocation. She is currently working on a book of daily reflections that is scheduled to be published in early 2007. She writes from Columbus, Ohio.
A graduate of Fordham University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Eileen Markey has covered politics, poverty and religion in Cambodia, Paterson, New Jersey and The Bronx, NY. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, City Limits and The Village Voice, among other publications. She lives in The Bronx.
Trish Muyco-Tobin has been a journalist and writer for print, radio and television for almost 15 years. She is the senior writer for Ladue News in St. Louis, and is associate producer and writer for an upcoming reality TV show called DA GRIND. She has served as news editor, anchor and reporter for KMOX and KTRS Radios in St. Louis and KBIA Radio and KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri. She was also the executive producer of a number of award-winning programs for the CONTACT Radio Program. Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Trish came to the United States with her family as a teenager in 1985. She resides in St. Louis with her husband David.
Gregory Ruehlmann writes about religion for BustedHalo and National Catholic Reporter (where his work has won a National Catholic Press Association award). He is a staff writer for Major League Baseball Yearbook magazine, and a contributing writer for Metro Spirit, Augusta, Georgia’s independent weekly newspaper. His comedy work has also been published online both at McSweeney’s and The Morning News. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Gregory is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago.
Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of All Will Be Revealed (MacAdam/Cage) and All the Money in the World (Random House). He was born in New York City and educated at Harvard, the University of Tokyo, and the Iowa Writers Workshop. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, where he lives with his wife, the writer Karen E. Bender, and their two children. He has received fellowships from the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown. He can be reached at his website: robertanthonysiegel.com.
After attending Wellesley College, Nicole Sotelo worked in San Francisco at Bank of America and then in Washington, DC for NETWORK, the National Catholic Social Justice Lobby. She recently graduated from Harvard Divinity School.
John D. Spalding is the founder and editor of the online magazine SoMA: A Review of Religion and Culture, and he is the author of A Pilgrim’s Digress: My Perilous, Fumbling Quest for the Celestial City. His writing was included in “The Best Christian Writing 2004” and has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Maxim magazine, Beliefnet.com, The Week, The Christian Century, Commonweal, Books & Culture, KillingtheBuddha.com, Science & Spirit, and Science & Theology News, among other publications. He has a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School, and he lives with his wife and identical twin boys in Connecticut. He is currently writing a book about life in first-century Palestine.
Dr. Christine B. Whelan, 29, is a New York-based social historian. Her book Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women (Simon & Schuster) is in stores now and is also available on this site at the Halo Store. Visit her book’s site to see her Good Morning America, CNN and other TV appearances, read reviews of the book from various publications, including the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
