catapult magazine

vol. 8, num. 13 :: 2009.06.19 — 2009.07.02

Online social networking is a complex phenomenon that is both shaping and being shaped by twenty-first century sensibilities. More than just a tool for connecting with people we know, Facebook and MySpace have become arbiters of identity as we friend and un-friend, poke and post, join and leave with abandon. How do such tools help or harm our face-to-face relationships?

Feature

Loving your online neighbor as yourself

by Marcus Goodyear

On moving from pretending to loyalty in the virtual world.

Editorial

Actualizing the virtual

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Facilitating food and gatherings via the tools of technology.

Articles

The pleasant results of a shrinking world

by David Brown

A reflection on what's good about online social networking.

Live Feed: Christians and Facebook are in a relationship.

by Adrian De Lange

In what ways are Christians responding to new technology, to the detriment or benefit of the Church?

My cloud of witnesses

by Deborah Leiter Nyabuti

How to show hospitality in a virtual room of diverse people.

Facebook reconsidered

by A.L. Matheson

How giving up online social networking for Lent shaped a new perspective.

Virtually at home

by Robert Minto

Describing the world of Facebook and naming its alternative ecology.

Conversation: “FaceSpace”

by The *cino Community

Your opportunity to contribute thoughts about online social networking.

Gallery

Nocturne

by Michelle Julianne Gallagher

A Facebook Morning After

by L.L. Barkat

In case you missed it the first time

Somewhat unreal communities

by David Howard Malone

Critics of virtual community laud the face-to-face experience, but what happens virtual reality comes to church?

Somewhat unreal communities

by David Howard Malone

Critics of virtual community laud the face-to-face experience, but what happens virtual reality comes to church?

MySpace, open space, God space

by Brad Riley

On creating space for God in our daily lives.

MySpace, open space, God space

by Brad Riley

On creating space for God in our daily lives.

Weaving the web

Is Google making us stoopid?

The Atlantic

Nicholas Carr writes on what technology is doing to our brains.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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