catapult magazine

vol. 1, num. 1 :: 2002.09.13 — 2002.09.26

What are our responsibilities to each other as we build community and what does practical community look like?

Feature

Bean-counting and babysitting

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Spending an afternoon in a house that two families share reveals the benefits of an option more families should consider.

Editorial

Radical gathering

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

On the relevance of community to September 11

Articles

Some say the Midwest is dying

by Kelly Crull

A young couple mourns and celebrates the passing of time as they visit the small town of Hospers, Iowa.

The ties that bind

by Jeff DeVries

A teen-aged boy struggles with the many dimensions of what it means to be his brother's keeper as he cares for his mentally handicapped older brother.

camping is not optional 2002

by Grant Elgersma

Shared vision provides instant community at the annual camping is not optional event.

Reviews

The show must go on

by Grant Elgersma

The Eminem Show combines technical improvements with the same flair for controversy presented in earlier efforts.

Gentle radicalism

by Bill Boerman-Cornell

Despite several flaws in reasoning, Roaring Lambs provides a compelling argument for Christians to transform culture.

Gallery

Weaving the web

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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