catapult magazine

vol. 7, num. 16 :: 2008.09.12 — 2008.09.26

Celebrating six years of publishing catapult magazine with our annual issue on the gift of community. The image in the issue banner is a photograph taken by Neil E. Das at the Light Project (St. Louis, MO). The pictured installation is Chorus by Sebastian Hungerer and Rainer Kehres.

Feature

Nameless community

by Tala Azar Strauss

An image-rich tour through a place you may or may not recognize, a place you may have been in but not seen.

Illuminated evening

by Neil E. Das

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

Editorial

A history of tables

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A piece of furniture forms a literal and symbolic stopping point in a life story.

Articles

Shrinking world

by Brenda Heyink

How globalization both strengthens and discourages community.

At home alone hospitality

by Deborah Leiter

Taking another look around an empty room reveals another kind of community, and subsequent responsibility.

Resident alien transplant

by Michele B. Postema

Taking up life in a new community at a different stage of life presents challenges and promises.

Home away from home

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A report from the biennial conference, co-sponsored by *cino and Russet House Farm.

Reviews

Grant’s recommendations 9.12.08

by Grant Elgersma

A French farce about WWI and hiphop music from a Somali refugee.

Gallery

Beautiful Words

by Nicole Carlin

Our neighbor, Betty, has six dogs, two cats, a chinchilla

by Erin Tuttle

In case you missed it the first time

A four-letter word

by Allison Graff

Overuse of the word community beckons us to rediscover its meaning.

A castle community

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

An interview with Monique Sliedrecht, artist-in-residence at Freswick Castle in northern Scotland.

Sinking down

by Daniel Silliman

On gaining a "sense of place" through knowledge of nightmares.

Weaving the web

Unpacking the Urban Paradox: Creating Inclusive Community

Comment

Todd Epp writes about Jean Vanier's legacy in Hamilton, Ontario.

Be OK

Ingrid Michaelson

A music video about being supported in community.

24 Hours at the Golden Apple

This American Life

A record of what happens when TAL staff decide to spend one whole day at a 24-hour restaurant.

Columns

"Community is bullshit"

by Meredith Kathryn-Case Gipson Hoogendam

A harsh welcome becomes a meaningful message.

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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