<?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; Nicole Sotelo</title> <atom:link href="http://www.bustedhalo.com/author/nicole-sotelo/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com</link> <description>an online magazine for spiritual seekers.</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:40 +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>God&#8217;s Economics</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/gods-economics/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/gods-economics/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:04:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best of]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Homepage Flash Box]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture : HP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Recently Featured : HP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1 timothy 6:10]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancient civilizations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[biblical communities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[biblical values]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bush administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[caring for the poor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[christians]]></category> <category><![CDATA[concern for the poor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[credit card debt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[do unto others]]></category> <category><![CDATA[economic practices]]></category> <category><![CDATA[economic principles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[financial insecurity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[financial sector]]></category> <category><![CDATA[free market capitalism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hebrew Bible]]></category> <category><![CDATA[islam]]></category> <category><![CDATA[j. michael brown]]></category> <category><![CDATA[judaism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Main Street]]></category> <category><![CDATA[material possessions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[middle class]]></category> <category><![CDATA[money]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Money and the Way of Wisdom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[moral compass]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pope benedict]]></category> <category><![CDATA[presidential candidates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[proverbs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Reich]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scripture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tax cuts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Bible]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the most vulnerable]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the poor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[timothy sandoval]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wall Street bailout]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Warren Buffett]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wealth]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/?p=5416</guid> <description><![CDATA[Whether it is the rising cost of your weekly grocery bill, water cooler rumors about layoffs or the nightly news, everyone is reminded about the downturn in the economy on a daily basis. Last month, the Pope was quoted as saying, &#8220;We are now seeing, in the collapse of major banks, that money vanishes, it [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/gods-economics/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>All I Want For Solstice</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/all-i-want-for-solstice/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/all-i-want-for-solstice/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:48:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[broomsticks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[corn husk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[davenport iowa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[native american tribe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[neopagans]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religious ed]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=678</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8220;I hope I&#8217;ll get it as a gift for Solstice,&#8221; said Andrea Bunch at a recent party when talking about a bottle of wine she had laid eyes on. Solstice is December 21st, the shortest day of light in the year and it is celebrated by Pagans and NeoPagans around the world.  Andrea, 31, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/all-i-want-for-solstice/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Feast for the Beasts</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-feast-for-the-beasts/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-feast-for-the-beasts/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:53:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[brother joseph]]></category> <category><![CDATA[deep sense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[disciples]]></category> <category><![CDATA[feast of st francis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gospel roots]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wealthy family]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wild thing]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=776</guid> <description><![CDATA[CNS Photo Americans love their pets. More than 63 million households have one and the numbers are on the rise. We take our animal companions on walks, to the beach and on family trips. But have you ever taken your pet to church? October 4th is the feast of St. Francis. On this [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-feast-for-the-beasts/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>You Will Know the Truth&#8230; and the Truth Will Set You Free</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/you-will-know-the-truthand-the-truth-will-set-you-free/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/you-will-know-the-truthand-the-truth-will-set-you-free/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:32:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Profiles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cia headquarters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[disastrous effects]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fordham university]]></category> <category><![CDATA[george h w bush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intelligence community]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intelligence issues]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intelligence professionals for sanity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[president george h w bush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ray mcgovern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[speaking the truth]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2592</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ray McGovern served God and country for 27 years as a member of the CIA by keeping his work secret. Today, along with a group of other Intelligence veterans, he tells the truth about the corruption of US Intelligence gathering to anyone who will listen. When he graduated Fordham University during the height of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/you-will-know-the-truthand-the-truth-will-set-you-free/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Starving for God</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/starving-for-god/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/starving-for-god/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:36:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anorexia nervosa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cakes and cookies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[group church]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sex hormones]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=874</guid> <description><![CDATA[Having just binged and purged, Kelly Raths remembers &#8220;literally pulling my head out of a toilet so I could go do youth group and be this vivacious person that people depended on for their kids.&#8221; Kelly, a former youth minister at her Montana Methodist Church, has lived a sacred struggle with food and faith for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/starving-for-god/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Hands-On Healing</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/hands-on-healing/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/hands-on-healing/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:09:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guided life force energy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religious adherents]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religious sister]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sister claudine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stress reduction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[universal life energy]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2593</guid> <description><![CDATA[This time of year, we promise to strip inches off our waist, build muscle on our upper arms and paint our teeth white. But Sister Claudine Picard, a small woman with fairy-grandmother curls and gentle eyes has a different New Year&#8217;s resolution suggestion: attend to your &#8220;universal life energy,&#8221; otherwise known as Reiki. After 55 years [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/hands-on-healing/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>So Help Me, God</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/so-help-me-god/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/so-help-me-god/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:12:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[biblical interpretation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[caucasian male]]></category> <category><![CDATA[christian religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church goers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[political decisions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religious aspect]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religious experiences]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scriptural interpretation]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2594</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8220;I can assure you in my talks with God, He is not a registered member of the right wing of the Republican Party.&#8221; &#8211; Presidential candidate Al Sharpton, a Pentecostal minister, during a December debate. 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It also helps (check the statistics) if you are a tall, Caucasian male. &#8220;We&#8217;re in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/so-help-me-god/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Soldier&#8217;s Story</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-soldiers-story/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-soldiers-story/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:17:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2595</guid> <description><![CDATA[Still dusting the sand off recent memories of his 15-months in Iraq, 26 year-old First Lieutenant Jeff Hurd of the US Army&#8217;s Second Armored Cavalry Regiment, talks to BustedHalo about media coverage of the war, the embattled city of Najaf, the people of Iraq, God and steak. BustedHalo: Over here in the states we get a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/a-soldiers-story/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Coming Out</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/coming-out/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/coming-out/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:09:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex & Relationships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[damage control mode]]></category> <category><![CDATA[faith communities]]></category> <category><![CDATA[faith tradition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gay members]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gay sexuality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[linen cloth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[national coming out day]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=890</guid> <description><![CDATA[Looking forward to a summer wedding, 28 year-old Ashley Dumas carried her wedding dress out of the closet and hung it on the door for all to see.  Her partner, 26 year-old Jamie Levine, and their friends admired the gown for its simple linen cloth. 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Nevertheless, perhaps God is calling you to live the vocation of singlehood—that is, the vocation of celibacy, of intimate union with the Divine. ‘This is celibacy calling, will you accept the charges?&#8217; Single male (at       least in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-love-of-your-life/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gay Marriage and the Church&#8230;</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/gay-marriage-and-the-church-2/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/gay-marriage-and-the-church-2/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:36:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[catholic theologian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[husbands and wives]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inferior status]]></category> <category><![CDATA[john paul ii]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacredness of sexuality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritual thinkers]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2600</guid> <description><![CDATA[All marriage as moral  danger? &#8220;Nothing is so powerful in drawing  the spirit of a man downwards as the caresses of a woman,&#8221; St. Augustine       said in the fifth       century. Like many spiritual thinkers of       his [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/gay-marriage-and-the-church-2/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Disaster Hits Home</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-disaster-hits-home/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-disaster-hits-home/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:40:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancestral home]]></category> <category><![CDATA[childhood days]]></category> <category><![CDATA[galle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hyde park]]></category> <category><![CDATA[local news station]]></category> <category><![CDATA[long time friend]]></category> <category><![CDATA[siblings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tamara mendis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[two brothers]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2601</guid> <description><![CDATA[ &#8220;I don&#8217;t have words to explain how I feel.  Please pray, that&#8217;s       all I can ask,&#8221; said the e-mail that my friend and classmate Devaka&#8217;s mother       sent to loved ones after hearing about the death of their long-time friend,    [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-disaster-hits-home/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Retreat to a New Beat</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/retreat-to-a-new-beat/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/retreat-to-a-new-beat/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:57:01 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[college retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[confirmation retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[day retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spiritual retreat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[st ignatius]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stations of the cross]]></category> <category><![CDATA[thin wallet]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1473</guid> <description><![CDATA[I boarded a bus     in Washington, DC, complete with wailing children, frustrated parents, and a man be-bopping to the loud music on his earphones for the entire four-hour trip to Atlantic City—where I would change buses to ride another two hours sitting next to Mr. Be-Bop himself. When you don&#8217;t own a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/retreat-to-a-new-beat/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Breathe like a Buddhist</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/breathe-like-a-buddhist/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/breathe-like-a-buddhist/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:02:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aunt rosie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[contemplative practice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conversational prayer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[encounter with god]]></category> <category><![CDATA[kitchen table]]></category> <category><![CDATA[last winter]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1474</guid> <description><![CDATA[My body screamed: &#8220;I&#8217;ve only had four hours of sleep!&#8221; But at 6:30 in the morning, some inner yearning drew me from my flannel sheets into the snowy winter morning. Looking back at last winter, I am surprised that anything could get me out of bed when it was 20 degrees outside, but I am even [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/breathe-like-a-buddhist/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Opus Dei: The Work of God?</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/opus-dei-the-work-of-god/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/opus-dei-the-work-of-god/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:44:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2602</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kim Schiel remembers swimming with her Catholic friends during college and noticing a row of scabs on the upper thigh of one of the females. 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