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Let's Get Together 11

Celebrating eleven years of publishing catapult magazine with our annual issue on the gift of community.

Margins

Bullying in schools is a hot topic these days, and justifiably so, but the realities of social hierarchy don’t end with high school graduation. What does it look like to stand with those who are socially, politically and economically marginalized at any age? What is the role of power and privilege in doing the right thing, from pre-school into adulthood?

Let’s Get Together 10

Celebrating ten years of publishing catapult magazine with our annual issue on the gift of community.

Theme Song

Like music over the opening credits, a song can set the tone for an experience or trigger a latent memory. Sometimes manufactured and sometimes by chance, songs come alongside our stories like old friends, or perhaps like uneasy acquaintances.  On the songs that make us feel something.

The Good Life

Whether we're ten years old or eighty, we all make choices for ourselves based on a vision of the good life, however articulated or unconscious that vision might be.  What has shaped our visions of the good life, both individually and collectively?

Planted

"Invest in the millennium.  Plant sequoias," writes the mad farmer Wendell Berry in his manifesto.  Planting things, sequoias or otherwise, is a sign of rootedness and hope.  In this spring season of planning and planting, how are you thinking about rootedness in the coming year?  What are your plans for your garden -- and your place?

Taboo: Sex(uality)

In our churches, in our families, in our neighborhood, in our friend groups, certain topics like - - - - - and - - - - - are off-limits, whether explicitly or implicitly.  Why are we reluctant to discuss - - - - - in these settings and what are the ripple effects?  A follow-up to the general taboo issue to focus specifically on of sex and sexuality.

Taboo

In our churches, in our families, in our neighborhood, in our friend groups, certain topics like - - - - - and - - - - - are off-limits, whether explicitly or implicitly. Why are we reluctant to discuss - - - - - in these settings and what are the ripple effects? (Certain portions of this issue description have been omitted in the interest of remaining - - - - -.)

Tradition 2

While traditions can occur at any time of year, Christmas is a season that focuses this theme.  What particularly meaningful rituals do you observe with family and friends each year, during Christmas or otherwise?  And what about the particularly meaningless ones you perhaps wish would end?

Going Local

If you think of all of the businesses, organizations and public spaces within a ten-minute walk of your house, what's there? What's missing? Could you survive on the resources within that radius? On local economies and all of the ways we do -- and don't -- support them.