http://www.bustedhalo.com an online magazine for spiritual seekers. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:00:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/green-with-envy/ http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/green-with-envy/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:00:47 +0000 Greg Ruehlmann http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2401 http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/green-with-envy/feed/ 12 http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-eunice-kennedy-shriver/ http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-eunice-kennedy-shriver/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:00:02 +0000 Greg Ruehlmann http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=10723 It's difficult now to grasp what a radical thing Eunice Kennedy Shriver was undertaking in the 1960s, when she founded the precursor of the Special Olypics, then fostered the later event's success. We sit, after all, in a time — thank goodness — when we have largely lost the ability to flinch in the face of physical or mental hindrance in our brothers and sisters. We prefer to take people as they are, and our world is better for it.This is due quite directly to Eunice Shriver, who began her work in a vastly different era when handicaps were something to be hushed up about, or hidden from view. After all, she caused a minor scandal in America in 1962 when she penned an article in the Saturday Evening Post acknowledging that her sister Rosemary, one of the nine Kennedy siblings, was developmentally disabled. This was considered a taboo for any family at the time, even one whose members included the President and Attorney General of the United States.Shriver by all accounts was the sort of person who never blushed, and never backed down. As important as she considered it to force into the public conscience an awareness of Rosemary and others like her, she put a far greater priority on the work that caused much less instant fuss, but that has had much greater, lasting effect. In the same year she introduced the world to her sister, Shriver hosted a camp for the handicapped during summer days on the grounds of her farm. The idea for "Camp Shriver" was simple: allow those with disabilities the chance to enjoy each other's company and take part in friendly competition — without judgment, without spectacle. It sounded so small, but the humanizing effect of sportsmanship was enormous.]]> http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-eunice-kennedy-shriver/feed/ 1 http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/angels-and-demons-mindless-and-mild/ http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/angels-and-demons-mindless-and-mild/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 20:07:38 +0000 Greg Ruehlmann http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=8806 http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/angels-and-demons-mindless-and-mild/feed/ 8 http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-paul-scofield/ http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-paul-scofield/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:45:15 +0000 Greg Ruehlmann http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=6414 http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-paul-scofield/feed/ 0 http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/seductive-reductive-religulous/ http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/seductive-reductive-religulous/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:33:13 +0000 Greg Ruehlmann 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