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Tennis Fans Go the Way of Baseball Crowds

September 6, 2011 godgoogler

Last year, for my 40th birthday, I took a trip with Big League Tours to four different baseball stadiums that I had not previously visited (Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Cincinnati)…

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How I Met My Ministry: The Early Years

August 23, 2011 godgoogler

Kids, this is a story that we’ll tell for the next few weeks. It’s a story of how I met my ministry. Having no children of my own and taking…

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The Church of the White Middle Aged Woman

July 12, 2011 godgoogler

So last week, I was out of town in Washington, D.C. and attended mass at a lovely community that came highly recommended to me. What I found there was a…

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Should We Clap at Mass?

July 9, 2011 godgoogler

The anchoress had a recent “hissy fit” post up regarding clapping at mass. (I think crankiness is entertaining). You know, the spontaneous outbursts for the choir when their musical skills…

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Meeting Jesus in Misery – Update

May 9, 2011 godgoogler

It was the worst news we could imagine. We never expected it to happen. We thought everything was just sailing along smoothly, in fact life had been better than it…

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Do You Grieve for Those Who Leave Catholicism?

October 21, 2010 godgoogler

Peter Steinfels is grieving the loss of adherents to Catholicism today in Commonweal. This analysis is fairly spot-on: Most of us base our impressions (GG editor’s note: of disaffected Catholics)…

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What Will People Wear to Your Funeral?

October 5, 2010 godgoogler

An English teacher I had in high school had us write our own obituary as an exercise. In college, I took a class called Death and Dying where we did…

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The Shaking Hands of Christ

September 21, 2010 godgoogler

This past Sunday I attended the 8:30 AM mass at my parish and one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen was at communion. There was a middle…

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BustedHalo’s® Open Letter to Anne Rice

August 3, 2010 godgoogler

Myisha Cherry takes a stab at an open letter to Anne Rice. She sums up nicely some similar thoughts to my own. Even today there are a few of my…

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More on Anne Rice leaving Christianity

July 30, 2010 godgoogler

Catholic Anarchy responds: I can’t say I can’t relate to Rice’s frustrations with the Catholic Church and with her feeling that she is an “outsider.” I do think the Googling…

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Mike Hayes is the Director of Young Adult Ministry in the Diocese of Cleveland. He’s been a noted spiritual director and retreat master for over 20 years and has worked with young people his entire ministry career. He’s best known for founding the award winning, BustedHalo.com and for writing the books Googling God (Paulist, 2007) and Loving Work (Orbis, 2012). He ministered on 2 college campuses for 11 years. He is available for Spiritual Direction in person or virtually. He is also available to conduct media interviews, podcasts, videos and written articles.

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