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Category Archive: Blogging
Aug
25
Dating God Meets Googling God
Br. Dan Horan was in town and asked if I had time to be on his podcast, so I jumped at the chance! He uncovered much in the “How I Met My Ministry” so I will let this post serve as the latest version of “HIMMM”. You can listen to his podcast here. And check …
Aug
08
Be the 300th Googling God Facebook Fan
We’re closing in on 300 fans on our Facebook page as you can see on the upper left hand corner of this here blog. Send the blog to friends and get them to be a friend too and more importantly, join the conversation. For fan #300, we’ll provide you with a copy of Googling God …
Aug
08
21 Questions to Ponder
So Dan Horan honored my new publisher, Mike Leach, by answering 21 questions that he had answered on his own blog. So I decided to follow suit with my own answers to the aforementioned 21 Questions. 1) Mike, how are you an average Catholic? I think I have my own frustrations and things I like …
Jul
21
Is Blogging Dying?
My pal. Fran, over at There Will Be Bread, posted about Blogging today. I found her thoughts to be both provocative and interesting and I think there’s a larger, nay, much larger conversation that needs to happen around this. Fran writes: “Earlier in the week I was at my home parish of St. Edward the Confessor, …
Jun
08
A Confirming Slap
Deacon Greg talks about a recent confirmation where he expected the Bishop to slap the confirmands on the cheek as they did “back in the day.” Read a snip: Generations of Catholics came into the church that way, with a dab of oil and a sting of flesh. At the time, the Sisters of St. …
May
07
Slightly New Look
So I updated the blog with some new do-dads. You can “Like” Googling God on Facebook by clicking in the upper left hand corner. Each post also has a individual “like” button with an additional opportunity to add a comment on Facebook. You can now “tweet” each post as well. Or simply “tweet” the whole …
Apr
15
Forgiveness More Popular Than Sex
So says, Michael Leach, the editor-at-large of Orbis Books and a new blogger at whystaycatholic.com. A snip from the aforementioned blog that really appealed to me: Amazon.com lists 160,510 books on the topic of forgiveness. That’s 31,629 more than on sexuality. What does that tell us about the human heart and what it hungers for …
Feb
05
Selling God at the Super Bowl
Some time ago, when I was in radio, one of the bigger controversies the station faced was an ad that was bought by the controversial religious group “Jews for Jesus.” Two men with deep Brooklyn Jewish accents debated whether Jesus was the messiah. “IS!”, said one. “IS NOT!” said the other. The commercial ends with …
Jan
13
Six Beautiful Words…
Out of surgery and doing well! Deo Gratias! Dad indeed did have a complete hip replacement today and they also set his wrist which was cleanly broken. So, generally speaking that is good news and what is standard procedure in these cases (Thanks to my good friend Dr. Beth Rooney, who is a physical therapist …
About the Blogger
Mike Hayes is an author, commentator, Campus Minister and Spiritual Director. He founded the award winning BustedHalo.com in 2001 and wrote the book Googling God with Paulist Press in 2007. Mike is currently a Campus Minister at The University at Buffalo where he serves on the staff of St Joseph University Church. He is available for speaking engagements, retreats and personal spiritual direction.
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