Phil Fox Rose writes the What Works personal spirituality column at Busted Halo. He is Assistant Coordinator for the New York City Chapter of Contemplative Outreach, and writes, edits and provides spiritual direction in NYC. Phil has also been a political party leader, videographer, web developer, tech journalist, punk roadie, software designer, sheepherder, stockbroker and downtempo radio DJ. Follow Phil on Twitter here.

	July 12th, 2009 What Works: Never Should Removing should and have to from your vocabulary I drink my morning coffee with milk. For some reason, I can barely stand drinking it without. One rainy evening I'm at home on the ...
	June 21st, 2009 What Works: Sun Worship Get outdoors this summer and experience God's wondrous creation Summer is upon us, and the other day when I read Therese Borchard's post on Beliefnet about how lack of sun exposure has led to a Vitamin D deficiency crisis across this country, it struck ...
	June 8th, 2009 What Works: Spiritual Recovery Becoming free from alcoholism and addiction requires God's help, not self-help If you are an alcoholic or addict, being spiritually unfit can be fatal. If not literally fatal then, as in my case, a living death ...
	May 27th, 2009 What Works: Radical Honesty Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no I always considered myself honest, and I had a lot of pride attached to that. I had a boss once who would stare you in ...
	May 11th, 2009 What Works: Get some sleep! It's hard to be spiritually fit when you're running on fumes I was up late but had agreed to an early brunch with friends, so after about five hours of sleep I'm on my way to ...
	April 22nd, 2009 What Works: Losing your footing and finding the ground Using the economic downturn to reevaluate your life's choices Nancy's whole career has been in pharmaceutical communications. After watching round after round of layoffs at her firm over the past two years, her ticket ...
	March 30th, 2009 What Works: Meditation It isn't boring, it isn't non-Christian and you do have the time for it The promise of meditation is not the 20 minutes of refuge from an otherwise insane day, wonderful as that may be. The promise is to ...
	March 11th, 2009 What Works: Am I An Alcoholic? Our inaugural What Works column tackles the toughest question some people ever face "Am I an alcoholic?" "Am I an addict?" At some point, many of us look back on our drinking or using and question it: question ...
	December 30th, 2008 Faithful Departed—William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) As I write about William F. Buckley, I can't help thinking of my dad. They were alike in many ways, and my father introduced me, ...
	December 30th, 2008 Faithful Departed—Dick Sutcliffe (1918-2008) A typical late-boom baby, I had a TV in my room from a very early age. This gave me a remarkable amount of control over ...