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February 2nd, 2002
"Love on the rocks, ain't no big surprise.
Just pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies?"
-- From Neil Diamond's "Love On the Rocks"
While flipping through my bible (Entertainment Weekly) the other day, I ...
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January 18th, 2002
A conversation with the former nun and author of The Tulip and the Pope
BustedHalo: If there were only one question I could ask you, it would be what you meant by "Faith is partly a matter of humbly applied wit." ...
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January 16th, 2002
This is my very favorite at-work freakout story.
An office worker, fearing anthrax contamination, pulled on a pair of rubber gloves to protect him as he opened a stack of mail. As we worked, he was ...
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January 16th, 2002
An Infinity of Little Hours: The Trial of Faith of Five Young Men in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order
What would it be like to see the face of God with your own eyes?
In the year 1084 St. Bruno of Cologne and six companions climbed a mountain in ...
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January 14th, 2002
A New Year's resolution to move out of our comfort zones
In the mid 1980s, I was studying theology in Boston. Several other young Jesuits and I moved from Cambridge—where the Jesuit School of Theology was located near Harvard Square—to live ...
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January 13th, 2002
A conversation with the author of An Infinity of Little Hours
BustedHalo: Nancy, your book, An Infinity of Little Hours, is an extraordinary look at life inside a Carthusian monastery, something no one has ever done before. The reason you were able ...
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January 12th, 2002
A review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
We waited and we hoped and then we went to the midnight show. We were not disappointed. They got this one just right; the film adaptation of Harry Potter ...
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January 10th, 2002
JC's Girls' unusual evangelization to the sex industry
"We got some other girls together and we went out to our first strip club."
It may sound like the beginnings of a wild bachelorlette party but in fact it ...
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January 8th, 2002
I'm only five "Why's" away from an ontological crisis
What's that?
I'm buckling my son into his car seat the other morning when he points to the tool used to scrape snow off the windshield.
"It's an ice scraper, sweetheart." ...
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January 6th, 2002
Making room in the classroom for a civil rights' icon and the practice of civil disobedience
The death of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks on October 24th coupled with the fiftieth anniversary on December 1, of her refusal to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus ...
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