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February 24th, 2009
Busted Halo's Ash Wednesday Challenge
It's an experience that any Catholic will understand. You decide that you'd like to stop by church on Ash Wednesday to get the obligatory ashes ... |
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February 24th, 2009
besides giving up chocolate
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the 40 days of preparation for the Easter season when Christians are called to renew their commitments to ... |
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February 9th, 2009
Inside a "voudou" village in South Carolina
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He should have honored their ways.
When a county health inspector threatened to press charges against the members of Oyotunji ... |
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February 5th, 2009
What to do with a husband who "isn't anything"
I had to explain it to the priest as I stood fidgeting with my cell phone antenna. No, my fiancee isn't Catholic or Jewish, and he wasn't baptized. I ... |
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February 2nd, 2009
The growing trend to tattoo your faith on your sleeve
Eyes of friends and strangers alike immediately fall to the arm, the shoulder, the back, or perhaps even to the unnaturally elongated earlobe ... |
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February 1st, 2009
Seeking the sacred dimensions of daily life
Faith, spirituality and religion are too often looked upon as the province of “experts” who spend all their time in places of worship with their noses buried deep in holy books. At BustedHalo.com we frequently ... |
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January 26th, 2009
An excerpt from Anne Rice's memoir on her spiritual journey back to faith
I came out of childhood with no sense of being a particular gender, and no ... |
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January 22nd, 2009
A brief, mixed-media biography of Christianity's Great Communicator
On June 28, 2007 at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls, Pope Benedict XVI announced officially that a special Jubilee Year dedicated to the Apostle ... |
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January 14th, 2009
XXXChurch is not a sex site (kinda)
A family member of mine recently said, "Shellie, I've accepted that you are working in the sex industry."
My thought? "It's about time."... |
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January 3rd, 2009
(1968 - 2008)
Emilie Lemmons, a writer and mother of two (although as she would say "not necessarily in that order"), is someone few people outside of the Minneapolis/St. ... |
