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Googling God
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A blog on everyday spirituality by the author of the book Googling God, Mike Hayes
Recent Posts
Advent is Here and BustedHalo® wants to know...
What Are You Waiting For? The BustedHalo® Daily Jolt Advent Calendar has arrived and is chock full of great advent quotes surrounding the theme of waiting. The reality for most of us however is that Advent simply becomes the anxious weeks of shoppin...
Counting Your Blessings?
I want to scream every time someone uses the terms "we've been blessed" or suggests that one "counts their blessings." Often this leads people into believing that God favors one group or individual over another. A friend said one day that "If God ...
Light Blogging is Very Possible This Week
Tending to some matters of family importance over the next few days until the day of the Turkey.So blogging indeed may be lighter than usual. Apologies. It must take precedence. Indeed I will attempt to do something special for Thanksgiving.http:/...
Ignatius and the World
I've been thinking much about how strange it must have been to be an early follower of St. Ignatius. Being a "contemplative" engaged with the needs of the world was a new mindset, different from old school monasticism which didn't fiddle with the ma...
This Advent be the Cross in the Classroom (and elsewhere)
Msgr. J. Patrick Keleher - "Fr. Pat" to those of us at the University of Buffalo had a great line in his homily referring to those of us who are Catholic on "secular campuses. He stated that on a Catholic campus there are crosses in each classroom (...
Word of the Year: Unfriend
Fran pointed me to this on Facebook:"Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent.Unfriend was defined as a verb that means to remove someone as a "friend"...

