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August 31st, 2009
Busted Halo examines three popular Catholic internet dating services
Jeff Whitfield shouldn't need any help meeting women. When he talks in his calm, Kentucky drawl about his past rambunctiousness and the salvation his faith ...
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December 30th, 2008
(1962-2008)
David Foster Wallace was a famous writer, which is not that common anymore. He wrote "Infinite Jest," arguably the most important novel of the past ...
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July 9th, 2008
You can’t spell love without evolve
For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your run-of-the-mill, cocktail-party conversation on Darwinism. All ...
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June 30th, 2008
WALL-E's a winner
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 a ...
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July 24th, 2007
The final book in the Gospel according to Rowling
Well, the Harry Potter series is over, and Harry still has not accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Sorry if I just ruined the ending, ...
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May 9th, 2007
You can't spell love without evolve
For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your run-of-the-mill, cocktail-party ...
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November 14th, 2006
Making the case for my sainthood with High School English students
"You can't be a saint," one of my students told me, matter-of-factly.
I was a bit troubled by this, as I had just told my class at an all-girls Catholic ...
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November 13th, 2005
Innocent Voices speaks volumes about the true costs of war.
While our nation's ongoing war in Iraq is still a hotly contested issue, for many of us it remains just that, one issue among many in an overheated climate of ...
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October 12th, 2005
My Name Is Earl solves the world's problems in thirty minutes or less
It's bad karma to steal a car from a one-legged woman. In fact, it's bad karma to do most of the things Early Hickey's done, including letting someone ...
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June 8th, 2005
Where does Harry’s magic come from?
[SPOILER ALERT: While the ending of the new Harry Potter novel is not revealed in this review, certain plot points are...consider yourself warned.]
Shortly after the first Harry Potter books came out in ...
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