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Surprising others this Christmas...
by The Editors
Return to the Advent calendar. While we are all warm and snuggly around a family fireplace, men and women are serving our country in the war-torn Middle East. BustedHalo is asking their readers to send phone cards to ...
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December 2nd, 2008
Surprising others this Christmas... Return to the Advent calendar.
While we are all warm and snuggly around a family fireplace, men and women are serving our country in ... |
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December 1st, 2008
Sartre Return to the Advent calendar.
Advent Quotable
While serving in the French army in 1940, Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher and playwright, was ... |
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November 30th, 2008
Where does the idea for an Advent wreath come from? Return to the Advent calendar.
Advent Fast Fact
The Advent wreath actually has pre-Christian Germanic origins. During the shortest day of the year (the winter ... |
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November 25th, 2008
For families divided by politics, gathering together this holiday season provides both challenges and opportunities I worry about the holidays this year. My relatives are an eclectic bunch, pretty evenly split—to use crude and somewhat useless political labels—between the Left ... |
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November 16th, 2008
Descended from the Jesus Movement of the 60s and 70s, The Twelve Tribes strives to restore true Christianity [caption id="attachment_5368" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Twelve Tribes members celebrate Sabbath"][/caption]
When Shuvael and Matanah Hebert sold their upscale, four-bedroom home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to ... |
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October 9th, 2008
A personal encounter with Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen leaves a young reporter puzzled, inspired and intrigued I recently learned of the Cause of Canonization of the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (the process by which Fulton J. Sheen may become a ... |
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October 8th, 2008
When a beloved family pet passes away, how do we help children face the reality of death? We found out over the phone, while on vacation. The housesitter called us to tell us that he was at the animal hospital back home with our cat, Smokey. And then he put the ... |
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October 6th, 2008
A Parent, A Child, A Knife—and a Command from God. What Would You Do? A few years ago during Yom Kippur, the holiest holiday on the Jewish calendar, I was in a little wooden synagogue on the Lower East Side of New York City. The rabbi, a venerable man ... |
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September 9th, 2008
Nearly 30 Years After His Murder, The Slain Archbishop’s Death Haunts Salvadoran Elections On a hot and sticky Sunday morning, pilgrims pour into the crypt of San Salvador Cathedral to pray at the tomb of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero. Grown men and women approach the tomb on their ... |
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September 5th, 2008
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. At BustedHalo.com we frequently hear from readers who desperately want to explore ... |
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August 23rd, 2008
Decades after he gave the Illinois senator his first job in community organizing, Jerry Kellman talks about Obama, his own religious conversion and both men's approaches to creating change In the early 1980s, when Jerry Kellman interviewed a young, idealistic Ivy League graduate for a $10,000 a year job with Chicago's Developing Communities Project (DCP) ... |
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August 12th, 2008
Amish teens flirt with modernity before deciding to embrace the church Joseph Miller says he likes driving Italian sports cars, drinking tequila and partying all night—and, oh yeah, he’s an Amish teenager. “But that ... |
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July 29th, 2008
In the past decade, hundreds of thousands from around the world have descended on Northern Spain to trek hundreds of miles on the Camino de Santiago. What is it about this 1000-year-old pilgrimage route that attracts them?
The modern-day pilgrim who struggles across Spain to the shrine of the Apostle James faces one more challenge in a church office that gives out an ... |
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July 23rd, 2008
Busted Halo's® Mike Hayes sends along his multimedia reports on World Youth Day from Sydney, Australia
This morning I traveled to Riverview for a Catechesis (teaching) session along with some young adults from Chicago who are active with Charis Ministries in Chicago—an organization that does retreats ... |
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July 21st, 2008
Busted Halo's® Mike Hayes sends along his multimedia reports on World Youth Day from Sydney, Australia
I woke up this morning in my nice cozy hotel room thinking about my companions sleeping out in the dewy cold air at Randwick Racetrack and awaiting the Papal ... |
