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May 3rd, 2009
...without a trip to Taco Bell
I've never celebrated Cinco de Mayo. Granted, I didn't know too much about the holiday, even while growing up in Texas. But I knew that ... |
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April 29th, 2009
Part 3 - Practicing What they Preach
There are more slaves today than at any other point in human history.
— E. Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous
For most of us, it's difficult ... |
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April 22nd, 2009
Here's a chance to win the national advice columnist's new memoir, The Mighty Queens of Freeville!
Ann Landers' successor shares the secrets of where she finds moral guidance and why a barbecue pit is the perfect place to find God
Interview and introduction by Kristine Gasbarre
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April 20th, 2009
Spoken word poets offer a raw, inspiring and spiritual message
On a Friday night in the East Village of Manhattan, a diverse crowd of 250 people in chairs, on the floor and standing shoulder to ... |
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April 8th, 2009
Without eating your weight in Peeps
My freshman year of college I was irate. After twelve years of Catholic school I expected some sort of vacation at Easter. My secular college ... |
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April 6th, 2009
Part 2 - Children Saving Children
There are more slaves today than at any other point in human history.
— E. Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous
For most of us, it's difficult ... |
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March 31st, 2009
Take the Freshman Survival Guide Survey!
When we published Busted Halo's® First Annual Freshman Survival Guide in 2005, we thought we had a good idea on our hands; we just didn't ... |
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March 30th, 2009
When a friend's life is consumed with Christian group activity, resentment brews
Twenty minutes after our agreed upon meeting time, my best friend Andrea rushed into the coffee shop smiling and apologetic. The devil on my left ... |
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March 25th, 2009
A younger generation expresses their Jewishness in controversial ways
Evocative, disrespectful, proud, antithetic: these are just some of the words used to describe Jews with tattoos. Seth Alamar, who has 30-odd tattoos, calls most ... |
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March 23rd, 2009
Part 1 - An interview with E. Benjamin Skinner
There are more slaves today than at any other point in human history.
— E. Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous
In his 1999 book, Disposable People, ... |
