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March 30th, 2007
Beyond words and Into Great Silence
At the beginning of March, Philip Groning's film Into Great Silence—a two-hour and forty-minute meditation on life in the Grande Chartreuse Carthusian monastery in southeastern France—opened ...
March 27th, 2007
A young Atlanta priest uses a popular morning show as his hip-hop pulpit
by Is God using Naomi Campbell to teach us a lesson? The man Atlantans know as "Father Crunk" seems to think so. ...
March 22nd, 2007
How the history of Chile can help us
Imagine being tortured and raped, and then being forced to watch as the ‘evil-doers' rape your daughter. All the while you know you do not have the ...
March 14th, 2007
Robert Siegel's All Will Be Revealed
Robert Anthony Siegel's new novel All Will Be Revealed combines an engrossing plot with intricately drawn characters and a rich historical setting to create a book ...
March 6th, 2007
An exclusive excerpt from the soon-to-be-released novel, ALL WILL BE REVEALED, by a BustedHalo contributing editor
Verena Swann sat in her carriage, peeking through the curtain at the crowd of mourners filling the avenue. Derbies, bonnets, slick black umbrellas, here and there a pale, ...
February 26th, 2007
A different kind of minority
The St. Vincent De Paul Catholic School elementary girls' basketball team was winning. Again. The Nashville school was almost all black, and they were playing a mostly white Catholic school. The ...
February 23rd, 2007
The star and director of Amazing Grace discuss religion, politics and the life of William Wilberforce
Though less-renowned in the United States than in Great Britain, William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a member of Parliament who fought an epic battle for two decades to end the slave trade in the British Empire. ...
February 21st, 2007
A brief checklist to make sure your resolutions make sense
As a child, Lent represented a springtime of denial leading up to the chocolate-filled celebration of Easter, but as an adult I now understand a bit more why Christians ...
February 20th, 2007
The spiritual death of Anna Nicole Smith
"Like My Body?" she slurs, lacing her fingers up her voluptuous figure and then throwing them up in the air. Introducing Kanye West at the 2004 American Music ...
February 12th, 2007
Happy Valentine's Day! Is Love Dead?
You can feel it in the air—the mad rush on Tiffany's, restaurants booked-up for prix fixe dinners, store shelves cleared of teddy bears, chocolate and flowers. (And if you're ...
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