<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Busted Halo &#187; Elizabeth Bonwich</title> <atom:link href="http://www.bustedhalo.com/author/elizabeth-bonwich/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com</link> <description>an online magazine for spiritual seekers.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:00:28 +0000</lastBuildDate> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4</generator> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Holy Thursday Foot Fetish</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/holy-thursday-foot-fetish/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/holy-thursday-foot-fetish/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:48:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[academic basics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[buddhist retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ccd classes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[personal retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[strange place]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tibetan buddhist temple]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2603</guid> <description><![CDATA[I never understood the washing of the feet. For newcomers, an explanation: each Holy Thursday at the Mass of the Lord&#8217;s Supper, there is a ritual washing of at least twelve people&#8217;s feet in imitation of Jesus doing the same to his disciples at the Last Supper. 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It started the week before Thanksgiving; I had nine coming for Thanksgiving dinner and was damned if I didn&#8217;t have a clean and organized apartment (or at least living room) to show off to my family and friends. So I cleaned and cleaned and having met my goal of a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-order-of-the-day/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hearts and Bones</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/hearts-and-bones/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/hearts-and-bones/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:15:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ambo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[coffin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lectors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[new job]]></category> <category><![CDATA[podium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[positive feedback]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scripture reading]]></category> <category><![CDATA[solar plexus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ugly head]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1475</guid> <description><![CDATA[The turning point was not being able to find a pew without a direct view of the dead saint&#8217;s remains in that crystal coffin under the altar. The experience was so bad that I walked right out of Mass and, having no other church in my immediate area, I simply stopped going. But other things weren&#8217;t [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/hearts-and-bones/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Century&#8217;s Bravest Believers</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-centurys-bravest-believers/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-centurys-bravest-believers/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:15:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1946</guid> <description><![CDATA[ Martyrs: Contemporary Writers on Modern Lives of Faith Edited by Susan Bergman, HarperSanFrancisco (1998), 333 pages. Bad martyr vibes It used to be that when I thought of martyrs, I immediately thought of a book from my childhood, Miniature Stories of the Saints . It had a picture of the young Saint Catherine of Alexandria holding the spiked [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-centurys-bravest-believers/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Wigilia</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/wigilia/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/wigilia/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2003 15:59:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[boiled potatoes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[borscht]]></category> <category><![CDATA[christmas eve]]></category> <category><![CDATA[first star]]></category> <category><![CDATA[health wealth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hot soup]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jobit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[oplatek]]></category> <category><![CDATA[polish christmas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[string beans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unexpected guest]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2605</guid> <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not Mary giving birth or the baby Jesus Himself that brings it to mind, but standing in the window watching for the first star to appear in the sky so that we can commence Wigilia, the Polish Christmas vigil and meal.Just my jobIt&#8217;s the job of the youngest child to watch for the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/wigilia/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Losing Your Edge</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/losing-your-edge/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/losing-your-edge/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:12:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[friend in need]]></category> <category><![CDATA[grade teacher]]></category> <category><![CDATA[high school yearbook]]></category> <category><![CDATA[kindness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[manhattan apartment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[peace in my life]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1489</guid> <description><![CDATA[My computer died, taking my last article—a tirade on the prevalence of thongs and stilettos in everyday women&#8217;s wear—with it. The PC that came to dinnerIt&#8217;s a good thing I&#8217;ve been storing a friend&#8217;s computer and stand in my apartment for almost the past year. It wasn&#8217;t supposed to be for that long but one month [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/losing-your-edge/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pitiless Summer Drama</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pitiless-summer-drama/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pitiless-summer-drama/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:02:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[coastal maine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dance routines]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dive bar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[electric scooter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[monologues]]></category> <category><![CDATA[music dance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theatre workshop]]></category> <category><![CDATA[town maine]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2606</guid> <description><![CDATA[ Gather forty strangers in one house and give them ten days to three weeks to learn music, dance routines, scenes, and monologues for a show open to the public. Is this reality TV? No, it&#8217;s just reality, spending the summer with cool and talented people in coastal Maine, as a student at NTWH, the National Theatre [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pitiless-summer-drama/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>In God We Trust</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/in-god-we-trust/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/in-god-we-trust/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:06:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[defendant]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eyewitness account]]></category> <category><![CDATA[felon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[holdout]]></category> <category><![CDATA[physical intensity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[positive attitude]]></category> <category><![CDATA[public defender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scratch marks]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2607</guid> <description><![CDATA[The big red stripe ran the length of the white envelope proclaiming, Juror Summons Enclosed. Jury duty. I decided to take a positive attitude. Why not? They do pay forty bucks a day; it&#8217;s a good way to get a view of the justice system; and if I don&#8217;t do it, how can I expect anybody else [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/in-god-we-trust/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Catholic Art of Getting a Life</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-catholic-art-of-getting-a-life/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-catholic-art-of-getting-a-life/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:11:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[faith community]]></category> <category><![CDATA[grand scheme of things]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mentors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scheme of things]]></category> <category><![CDATA[true vocation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wrong direction]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2608</guid> <description><![CDATA[Getting a Life: How to Find Your True Vocation by Renée LaReau, Orbis (2003), 158 pages. It seems to me life improves drastically after you hit 30.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-catholic-art-of-getting-a-life/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pride lust envy gluttony greed sloth anger</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pride-lust-envy-gluttony-greed-sloth-anger/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pride-lust-envy-gluttony-greed-sloth-anger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2003 17:34:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[loss of innocence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[physical disabilities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[quiet environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ringing in my ears]]></category> <category><![CDATA[types of cancer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wheelchair tennis]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1527</guid> <description><![CDATA[With my tongue outstretched and her hand on my pulse, the acupuncturist fired questions and conclusions at me: &#8220;You worry too much. You think too much. Are you angry?&#8221; I groaned to myself; she knows way too much for someone I&#8217;d just met. &#8220;Uh&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Are you angry?&#8221; &#8220;No.&#8221; I lied. The heart of the matterShe picked up on the thing I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pride-lust-envy-gluttony-greed-sloth-anger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Rainbow Connection</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-rainbow-connection/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-rainbow-connection/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2003 19:53:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arrow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beautiful thing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[genesis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[power of god]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rainbow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[repentance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[revelation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[time god]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1549</guid> <description><![CDATA[I read the reading from Genesis three times before I picked up on the rainbow. &#8220;I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.&#8221; The bow I kept seeing was the kind one uses in conjunction with an arrow, not a rainbow of light. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-rainbow-connection/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>God&#8217;s Backyard</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/gods-backyard/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/gods-backyard/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:15:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[brown cliffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[chilly afternoon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hudson river]]></category> <category><![CDATA[long walks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[physical disability]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tire swing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tire swings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vestiges]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1557</guid> <description><![CDATA[I  stood on the corner looking into the children&#8217;s playground. At one o&#8217;clock on this chilly afternoon I found it empty after my walk in the park. Past the dry sprinklers were the two tire swings. Do I dare? I wondered looking around at the quiet empty streets around the playground.I walked in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/gods-backyard/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Caught in the Cookie Jar</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/caught-in-the-cookie-jar/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/caught-in-the-cookie-jar/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:15:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[canned juices]]></category> <category><![CDATA[chocolate chip cookies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cream cheese]]></category> <category><![CDATA[food choices]]></category> <category><![CDATA[international food]]></category> <category><![CDATA[premature death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[real food]]></category> <category><![CDATA[supermarket aisles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tiny kitchen]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2609</guid> <description><![CDATA[Propped up against the wall of my tiny kitchen, absentmindedly chain eating Entenmanns&#8217;s chocolate chip cookies, I was engrossed in an article from the Catholic Worker about the life of St. Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorist order of priests. As I shot my hand into the box for yet one more cookie, I was confronted [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/caught-in-the-cookie-jar/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Leaving the Darkness</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/leaving-the-darkness/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/leaving-the-darkness/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:21:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bonwich</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[artistry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bookstore window]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gabe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jack o lantern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lanterns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spray paint]]></category> <category><![CDATA[toilet paper]]></category> <category><![CDATA[uncommon response]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2610</guid> <description><![CDATA[ Jack O&#8217;Lantern sat in the glow of Hell&#8217;s ember, carving yet one more pumpkin in replacement of the rotting moldy one currently housing the Devil&#8217;s coal. 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They won&#8217;t hijack a turbo prop,&#8221; my ex-boyfriend insisted as I squirmed and looked for more reasons not to fly to my upcoming family reunion four states away. &#8220;There&#8217;s not enough fuel on a turbo prop,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;they need a lot of fuel.&#8221; I haven&#8217;t flown in a year and I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/flight-delayed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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