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Olivia Bardo

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As seen in: Global Sisters Report, Business Insider, Yahoo News, Business Insider Deutschland, Yahoo, The Salt Lake Tribune, Religion News Service, National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners, Commonweal Magazine, New Jersey Monthly Magazine and
Social/multimedia editor @sistersreport | Words @BusinessInsider, @Sojourners, @RNS, @NCRonline, @commonwealmag | currently baking bread

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Olivia Bardo’s Biography

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Olivia Bardo is the multimedia/social editor at Global Sisters Report. She grew up in rural Pennsylvania, where she spent her time reading fiction, picking wildflowers and cloud watching. She calls northern New Jersey home.

Olivia is a graduate of Messiah University, where she majored in English and minored in political science and gender studies. She also had the opportunity to study abroad at the University of Oxford.

Before joining the team at GSR, Olivia was an editorial assistant at Sojo…

Olivia Bardo’s Journalist Portfolio

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Let them eat King Cake, but not the baby!

Let them eat King Cake, but not the baby!

Between Epiphany and Mardi Gras, people all over the world eat King Cake. Whether simply because it tastes go…

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In 'A Complete Unknown,' It's Pete Seeger Who Brings the Wisdom

In 'A Complete Unknown,' It's Pete Seeger Who Brings the Wisdom

Edward Norton's performance captures the late folk artist's steady approach to justice - one that serves us w…

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Reporter's Inbox: Nikki Glaser's Catholic take on 'Wicked' at the Golden Globe Awards

Reporter's Inbox: Nikki Glaser's Catholic take on 'Wicked' at the Golden Globe Awards

No one was off limits in the comedian's jokes, including the pope, who also received a bit of production valu…

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Reviving 12th-century St. Hildegard's 'cookies of joy'

Reviving 12th-century St. Hildegard's 'cookies of joy'

St. Hildegard said her cookies of joy "calm all bitterness of the heart and mind, open your heart and impaire…

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In 'Wicked' and the Bible, Prophets Are Scorned for Truth-Telling

In 'Wicked' and the Bible, Prophets Are Scorned for Truth-Telling

Both Elijah and Elphaba are empowered by their strong conviction of what is right and just, even when it ostr…

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Over the Garden Wall and Our Own Spiritual Pilgrimages | Think Christian

Over the Garden Wall and Our Own Spiritual Pilgrimages | Think Christian

The autumnal animated classic reminds us to hold onto hope even when the path grows dark.

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Articles

Can We Reform Our Souls by Going Analog?

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By Olivia Bardo Verified
| Sojourners Verified
ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA you’ll find sped-up videos of people sitting and doing nothing. They settle in alone, with no phones, and simply sit with their thoughts. The figures in these videos are trying to retrain their attention spans. After years of mindlessly scrolling through social media, they now film themselves, clasping their hands, tapping their thumbs, closing their eyes.
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A Tiny Mobile Bookshop Fosters a Novel Community in South Jersey

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By Olivia Bardo Verified
| New Jersey Monthly Magazine Verified
Charity Herndon runs Austen's Shelf, a mobile bookshop and brick-and-mortar shop in Bordentown. Photo: Matt Stanley When Charity Herndon sets up her mobile bookshop for the day, there’s often a line around the block.
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Is a signed Pope Leo Knicks jersey New York's holy assist?

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By Olivia Bardo Verified, John Grosso
| National Catholic Reporter Verified
As celebrations erupted in New York after the Knicks won Game 1 of the NBA Finals, beating the San Antonio Spurs, 23-year-old Knicks fan MD Hossain grabbed a microphone and chanted, "My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish, my Christian Dior, Knicks in four." The NBA Finals is played as a best of seven series — four wins would clinch a series sweep and New York's first men's basketball championship in 53 years.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Once, to sign up for the C.S. Lewis Society at the University of Oxford.

What's your favorite social network?

Instagram

Why did you become a journalist?

To understand and to be understood.

Awards

Honorable Mention

2022 - Best Emerging Journalist

Awarded honorable mention by the Associated Church Press for their 2022 Best of the Church Press Awards.

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