catapult magazine

vol. 9, num. 3 :: 2010.02.05 — 2010.02.18

Some churches reserve it for special occasions or limit the frequency of its observance in order to maintain its specialness. Other churches define all of their worship services by it, believing the community has not truly come together unless it was around the table. Why communion?

Feature

The Eucharist is an economic act

by Christopher Smith

Growing a church community around the centrality of the shared feast.

Editorial

A better story

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Is the devil really in the details?

Articles

A foretaste of the feast to come

by William O. Gafkjen

A reflection on a full-bodied model for teaching, celebrating and practicing communion.

Company’s here!

by Jessica Groen

Word play leads to serious food play when it comes to communion.

Save a seat

by Andrew Kachel

On discovering the weight of the sacred meal.

Gallery

Without the Shedding of Blood

by Neil E. Das

Eden, Emmaus Optics

by Jessica Groen

In case you missed it the first time

Holy drinking

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

On learning by observation how to defeat death with a cold beer.

Late night thoughts on food as sacrament

by Reverend Lawrence W. Farris

On modeling Christ as a guest at the table.

Weaving the web

The Body of Christ, Now Germ-Free

Killing the Buddha

Kiera Feldman reports on modern conveniences that are helping us ruin the best part.

Feasting at God’s Communion Table

Mustard Seed Associates

Christine Sine follows the trail from an Ethiopian feast to the altar.

Columns

Fighting despair in 2010

by Grant Elgersma

Conan says goodbye with wise words that speak to the past, present and future.

daily asterisk

Bread eaten together is daily sustenance. Bread eaten together is economic sharing. Not merely symbolically, but also in fact, eating together extends to a wider circle the economic solidarity normally obtained in the family…. In short, the Eucharist is an economic act. To do rightly the practice of breaking bread together is a matter of economic sharing.

John Howard Yoder
Body Politics

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