<?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; Jeff Guhin</title> <atom:link href="http://www.bustedhalo.com/author/jeff-guhin/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com</link> <description>an online magazine for spiritual seekers.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:02:29 +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>Faithful Departed — John Updike</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-john-updike/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-john-updike/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle : HP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Faithful Departed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homepage Flash Box]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1960s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[american author]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Updike]]></category> <category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philip Roth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rabbit Run]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WASPs]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=10724</guid> <description><![CDATA[ I read John Updike&#8217;s Rabbit series when I was 22, living with nuns in the North Bronx. Perhaps needless to say, I had a lot of free time after around 8:30 every night, and I tore through all the novels I didn&#8217;t have time to read in undergrad. Of course, what I read still had [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-john-updike/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Matches Made in Heaven?</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/matches-made-in-heaven/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/matches-made-in-heaven/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homepage Flash Box]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex & Relationships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex & Relationships : HP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ave Maria Singles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Catholic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[catholic orthodoxy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[catholic singles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Catholic Thrive]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CatholicSingles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[catholicsingles com]]></category> <category><![CDATA[connection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[courtship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dating and marriage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dating site]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dating sites]]></category> <category><![CDATA[internet dating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[marriage as a vocation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meeting women]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online dating service]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online dating sites]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shared faith]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2379</guid> <description><![CDATA[ Jeff Whitfield shouldn&#8217;t need any help meeting women. When he talks in his calm, Kentucky drawl about his past rambunctiousness and the salvation his faith provided him, he sounds charming, self-possessed, and likable &#8212; not the kind of guy who would need an online dating service. In fact, he wouldn&#8217;t have expected it ether. Jeff&#8217;s [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/matches-made-in-heaven/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Faithful Departed—David Foster Wallace</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-david-foster-wallace/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-david-foster-wallace/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle : HP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Faithful Departed]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homepage Flash Box]]></category> <category><![CDATA[A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again]]></category> <category><![CDATA[chronic depression]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cruise ship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[David Foster Wallace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[depression]]></category> <category><![CDATA[essayist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Infinite Jest]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mathematical philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[novelist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[novels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ocean]]></category> <category><![CDATA[postmodern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[primordial nada]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sharks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Crane]]></category> <category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tennis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Open Boat]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=6457</guid> <description><![CDATA[ David Foster Wallace was a famous writer, which is not that common anymore. He wrote &#8220;Infinite Jest,&#8221; arguably the most important novel of the past 20 years, and certainly the one that took America&#8217;s avant-garde out of its incessant postmodern navel-gazing. He was probably more famous for his essays, which were published in magazines like [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/faithful-departed-david-foster-wallace/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Conversion of the Casual Evolutionist</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-conversion-of-the-casual-evolutionist-2/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-conversion-of-the-casual-evolutionist-2/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:19:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[darwinism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[evolutionary biologist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[evolutionist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[richard dawkins]]></category> <category><![CDATA[smart women]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theory of evolution]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2692</guid> <description><![CDATA[ For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist.&#160; You know, the type of person who could handle your run-of-the-mill, cocktail-party conversation on Darwinism.&#160; All the obvious stuff just seemed to make sense, like how giraffes with longer necks had a better shot than their shorter cousins.&#160; Or that [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-conversion-of-the-casual-evolutionist-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Little Trash-Compactor That Could</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-little-trash-compactor-that-could/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-little-trash-compactor-that-could/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:58:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best of]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[disney]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pixar]]></category> <category><![CDATA[robots]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wall-e]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2681</guid> <description><![CDATA[ Even by Hollywood standards the story idea pitched to movie executives for Pixar&#8217;s WALL-E must have sounded hallucinogenic: &#8220;So we&#8217;ve got this robot, but it&#8217;s a really lonely robot, see, because all the humans have left Earth a complete wasteland and this poor little guy has to pick up their trash&#8212;forever!  Yeah!  [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-little-trash-compactor-that-could/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Passion of the Potter</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-passion-of-the-potter/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-passion-of-the-potter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:23:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[christian imagery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[death eaters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[epigraphs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[head author]]></category> <category><![CDATA[j k rowling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lord voldemort]]></category> <category><![CDATA[magical objects]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pentagrams]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2370</guid> <description><![CDATA[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, but you should know a few more things too: in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last novel in the series, Harry does not celebrate [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-passion-of-the-potter/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Conversion of the Casual Evolutionist</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-conversion-of-the-casual-evolutionist/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-conversion-of-the-casual-evolutionist/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 18:31:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[boardroom presentation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cocktail party conversation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fashion models]]></category> <category><![CDATA[girlfriend linda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sabre tooth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theory of evolution]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=731</guid> <description><![CDATA[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 the obvious stuff just seemed to make sense, like how giraffes with longer necks had a better shot than their shorter cousins. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-conversion-of-the-casual-evolutionist/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>You Can&#8217;t Be a Saint!</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/you-cant-be-a-saint/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/you-cant-be-a-saint/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:12:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[catholic high school]]></category> <category><![CDATA[feelings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[grandma]]></category> <category><![CDATA[logic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nuns]]></category> <category><![CDATA[saints]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=769</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t be a saint,&#8221; 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 high school that I wanted to be a saint.  I asked if there were anything I could do to boost my chances. &#8220;No,&#8221; another one said. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/you-cant-be-a-saint/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Every Mother&#8217;s Son</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/every-mothers-son/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/every-mothers-son/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:30:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abstractions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[amores perros]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cindy sheehen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[government agents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mexican cinema]]></category> <category><![CDATA[oscar torres]]></category> <category><![CDATA[peace camp]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reality of war]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2371</guid> <description><![CDATA[While our nation&#8217;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 endless rhetoric and polarizing debate on 24-hour news outlets. It is another abstraction on the crowded American landscape of ideas, desires and beliefs. People like [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/every-mothers-son/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sitcom Karma</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/sitcom-karma/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/sitcom-karma/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:36:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[carson daly]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cosby show]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hickey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[legged woman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[moral development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[my name is earl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stock characters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vspace]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2372</guid> <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s bad karma to steal a car from a one-legged woman.  In fact, it&#8217;s bad karma to do most of the things Early Hickey&#8217;s done, including letting someone else go to jail for his crimes, fixing high school football games, or faking his own death to break up with a girl.  Hickey, the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/sitcom-karma/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Post-Christian Potter</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/post-christian-potter/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/post-christian-potter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:43:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[christian themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dark wizards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fictional world]]></category> <category><![CDATA[harry potter and the half blood]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plot points]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ray vision]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spoiler alert]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2373</guid> <description><![CDATA[[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 the United States in 2000, The Onion ran a story with the memorable headline “Harry Potter Books Spark Rise in Satanism Among Children.” [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/post-christian-potter/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Safely Surreal</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/safely-surreal/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/safely-surreal/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:47:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[director of the incredibles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[evil witches]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hayao miyazaki]]></category> <category><![CDATA[howl s moving castle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[subconscious imagery]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2374</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hayao Miyazaki makes that rare kind of animated movie that both children and adults love.  Considered one of the greatest writer-directors in Japanese cinema and one of the finest animators ever, Miyazaki is the subject of much critical buzz, not only for his Academy-Award winning Spirited Away but for the recent English language debut [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/safely-surreal/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Whose History Month?</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/whose-history-month/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/whose-history-month/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:51:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anonymous questionnaire]]></category> <category><![CDATA[black entertainers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[black girls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[feminist analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[frederick douglas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[igby goes down]]></category> <category><![CDATA[langston hughes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[latina girls]]></category> <category><![CDATA[n word]]></category> <category><![CDATA[racial identity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tough questions]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2375</guid> <description><![CDATA[ Even Dave Chappelle and Jay-Z weren&#8217;t cool enough.  For some reason, my attempts to fit Black History Month into my high school junior English lesson plans by drawing parallels between these contemporary black entertainers and the work of icons like Frederick Douglas and Langston Hughes just wasn&#8217;t working. It worked when I made [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/whose-history-month/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Resolution Outlook</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/resolution-outlook/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/resolution-outlook/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:55:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[colors]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fashion sense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[four minutes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[grandmother]]></category> <category><![CDATA[high school students]]></category> <category><![CDATA[models]]></category> <category><![CDATA[parents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[resolutions]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2376</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is going to be the year I       get organized. I&#8217;m serious. My friends have told me that       there&#8217;s absolutely no way I&#8217;ll keep        any of my resolutions, but I&#8217;ve made it through the first week [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/resolution-outlook/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>O&#8217; Solstice Tree</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/o-solstice-tree/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/o-solstice-tree/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:39:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[christmas tree]]></category> <category><![CDATA[holiday tree]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meaning of christmas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pagan feast]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Solstice]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2400</guid> <description><![CDATA[Since Jesus never saw a Christmas tree, I&#8217;m not sure what he&#8217;d want to call it.  My hunch is that he really wouldn&#8217;t care.  But, lately it&#8217;s become painfully obvious that some people do seem to care&#8230;a lot.  Conservative groups are upset that the White House sent out cards for the &#8220;Holiday [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/o-solstice-tree/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Spiritual Certainty?</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/spiritual-certainty/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/spiritual-certainty/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:59:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1 john]]></category> <category><![CDATA[george bush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[george w bush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[john kerry]]></category> <category><![CDATA[new york times]]></category> <category><![CDATA[real faith]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religious spectrum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reverend jim]]></category> <category><![CDATA[secular media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[york times magazine]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2377</guid> <description><![CDATA[I am neither God nor George W. Bush. As a result, I&#8217;m really not in a position to talk about the President&#8217;s soul, though I do believe I can talk about his faith, mostly because he talks about it all the time. 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