catapult magazine

vol. 8, num. 17 :: 2009.09.04 — 2009.09.17

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

Feature

Fidelity and fecundity

by Gary Guthrie

A farmer reflects on lessons from twelve years of harvests that apply to growing vegetables and far beyond.

Editorial

A room of our own

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A call for help transforms personal crisis into communal effort.

Articles

Round and round

by Brenda Heyink

A meditation on receiving with the original intention of giving.

From oasis to desert island

by Timothy Stephens

A short account of an ideal vision for community that came tumbling down.

Isolation in community

by Zena Neds-Fox

What happens when church becomes a social club with unwritten rules?

Ten reasons I love to pay my taxes

by Bill Boerman-Cornell

Reflections from a morning bike ride on the good things about chipping in.

Conversation: "Let’s Get Together 7"

by The *cino Community

Your opportunity to contribute thoughts about community, healthy and not so healthy.

Reviews

Toward an urban naturalism

by Christopher Smith

A review of Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness by Lyanda Lynn Haupt.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Illuminated evening

by Neil E. Das

A visit to a collection of art installations prompts thoughts about the relationships between art and community.

A good kind of stuck

by Denise Frame Harlan

Unlikely community emerges on the other side of a record-breaking January snowstorm.

Weaving the web

Heartland Liturgy

Killing the Buddha

Anthony Eastman interviews Lutheran singer-songwriter Jonathan Rundman about grace, ordination and community building.

Columns

Welcome to the family

by Meredith Kathryn-Case Gipson Hoogendam

True human connection is just a Profile away.

daily asterisk

*culture is not optional usually takes a publishing break in the month of August and that includes the daily asterisk. Don’t fret, though, we’ll be back on September 9. In the meantime, please feel free to send along interesting quotes you’ve found along your journey!

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