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June 20th, 2006
How living with a street gang led an agnostic anthropologist to faith
Thomas Ward agonized over a choice: should he cheat death by ditching his research or forge ahead and prepare to die? He decided to prepare to die. ...
June 2nd, 2006
Busted Halo discusses faith's place in art and the public market with one of America's most adventurous singer-songwriters.
In the world of popular music there is perhaps no genre that is more suspicious of Christian faith than indie rock. Having grown out the late 70s punk movement ...
May 31st, 2006
A look inside the home schooling phenomenon and the lives of three of its practitioners
Moving from California to Guam in third grade, Rebecca Nations anticipated a new school and learning environment as she made the transition from the West Coast to the tropics. ...
May 22nd, 2006
Jewish-Christians at USC struggle with the effects of conversion to Christianity
David Allen's parents wanted him to see a psychiatrist. Why? Not because he was depressed, taking drugs or getting bad grades in college but because he wanted to convert to Christianity. Allen is one of several ...
May 16th, 2006
Beware of faith-based fenders
My grandmother loved Jesus. My grandmother's dog apparently loved Jesus. My grandmother's car even preached about Jesus. Those are not all good things. She would drive around in her huge, red ...
May 5th, 2006
Discovering the Mystery of Easter in the new documentary about Fr. Mychal Judge
CNS Photo Last week a friend invited me to attend the world premiere of the film Saint of 9/11, a documentary that tells the story of Father ...
April 28th, 2006
Praiz and the soul of Christian Hip Hop
It all started with a desperate prayer from a desperate man: Lord deliver me from myself I'm in trouble, I need your help... Not too long ago, Vance Watt was caught in ...
April 28th, 2006
Skunks, semantics and the art of spin
The other day, while toting my inquisitive four-year-old daughter to preschool, our chat about contemporary political corruption was interrupted by a familiar smell. Taking a moment at a red ...
April 17th, 2006
An interview with the author of The Collar: A Year of Striving and Faith Inside a Catholic Seminary
The Collar chronicles the journey of five men who have left their careers and former lives behind to begin formation for the Roman Catholic priesthood. In his realistic, human, ...
April 9th, 2006
BustedHalo talks with the real-life nun behind Dead Man Walking about her newest book The Death of Innocents
"We never know when grace is going to hit us" says Sister Helen Prejean at the start of our interview. The sixty-seven-year old author and activist knows what she is talking ...
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