catapult magazine

Fidelity and fecundity

by Gary Guthrie

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

A room of our own

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A call for help transforms personal crisis into communal effort.

Round and round

by Brenda Kronemeijer-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.

Toward an urban naturalism

by Christopher Smith

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

Together Girls

by L.L. Barkat

Baptism

by Amy Carpenter-Leugs

Girls at Night

by Daniel Silliman

We Gather Together

by Sarah Lynn Phillips

Get Thee to a Winery

by Neil E. Das

The Purpose Tree

by Ali Jacobs

A good kind of stuck

by Denise Frame Harlan

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

Illuminated evening

by Neil E. Das

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

Heartland Liturgy

Killing the Buddha

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