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December 30th, 2008
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David Foster Wallace was a famous writer, which is not that common anymore. He wrote "Infinite Jest," arguably the most important novel of the past ...
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July 9th, 2008
You can’t spell love without evolve
For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your run-of-the-mill, cocktail-party conversation on Darwinism. All ...
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June 30th, 2008
WALL-E's a winner
Even by Hollywood standards the story idea pitched to movie executives for Pixar’s WALL-E must have sounded hallucinogenic: “So we’ve got this robot, but it's a ...
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July 24th, 2007
The final book in the Gospel according to Rowling Well, the Harry Potter series is over, and Harry still has not accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Sorry if I just ruined the ending, ...
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May 9th, 2007
You can't spell love without evolve For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your run-of-the-mill, cocktail-party ...
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November 14th, 2006
Making the case for my sainthood with High School English students "You can't be a saint," one of my students told me, matter-of-factly.
I was a bit troubled by this, as I had just told my class at an all-girls Catholic ...
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November 13th, 2005
Innocent Voices speaks volumes about the true costs of war. While our nation's ongoing war in Iraq is still a hotly contested issue, for many of us it remains just that, one issue among many in an overheated climate of ...
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October 12th, 2005
My Name Is Earl solves the world's problems in thirty minutes or less It's bad karma to steal a car from a one-legged woman. In fact, it's bad karma to do most of the things Early Hickey's done, including letting someone ...
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June 8th, 2005
Where does Harry’s magic come from? [SPOILER ALERT: While the ending of the new Harry Potter novel is not revealed in this review, certain plot points are...consider yourself warned.]
Shortly after the first Harry Potter books came out in ...
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June 2nd, 2005
A review of Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle Hayao Miyazaki makes that rare kind of animated movie that both children and adults love. Considered one of the greatest writer-directors in Japanese cinema and one of the finest animators ...
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February 1st, 2005
Not everything is black and white
Even Dave Chappelle and Jay-Z weren't cool enough. For some reason, my attempts to fit Black History Month into my high school junior English lesson plans by drawing parallels between these contemporary black ...
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January 6th, 2005
This is the year I get organized This is going to be the year I get organized. I'm serious. My friends have told me that ...
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December 16th, 2004
A (Mostly) Christian Defense of Holiday Trees Since Jesus never saw a Christmas tree, I’m not sure what he’d want to call it. My hunch is that he really wouldn’t care. But, lately it’s ...
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October 2nd, 2004
There is no W in Faith I am neither God nor George W. Bush. As a result, I'm really not in a position to talk about the President's soul, though I do believe I can ...
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August 2nd, 2004
Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping are taking on the forces of consumerism, one Starbucks at a time On a muggy July evening just after work, people in the World Trade Center PATH train station hustle by on their Tuesday commute home, talking into their cell phones as they ...
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July 24th, 2004
BustedHalo examines the explosion of internet dating services and investigates three of the most popular sites for Catholics Jeff Whitfield shouldn't need any help meeting women. When he talks in his calm, Kentucky drawl about his past rambunctiousness and the salvation his faith provided him, he sounds ...
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June 2nd, 2004
The thinking-person's superhero The most fascinating disguise in this summer's blockbuster Spiderman 2 has nothing to do with special effects or characters on the screen. Though the second installment in the franchise ...
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June 2nd, 2004
A review of Awake My Soul: Contemporary Catholics on Traditional Devotions edited by James Martin, S.J. To an older generation of Roman Catholics, the mention of traditional devotions like the eucharistic adoration and liturgy of the hours might elicit either chilling memories of ...
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April 3rd, 2004
I would do anything for love (but I won't do that) "I can definitely see you as a priest," my friend told me."Thanks," I said. This was a helpful insight, since I'd like to be a priest. "But the thing ...
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