catapult magazine

vol. 8, num. 10 :: 2009.05.08 — 2009.05.22

If we’re faithful, God will bless us with material wealth. If we’re faithful, we will live in voluntary poverty. Christians past and present argue and live both of these positions with equal tenacity…so what is abundance and what is its relationship to scarcity? What does prosperity look like in the Kingdom of God?

Feature

Abundance for all

by James K.A. Smith

What's right with the prosperity gospel?

Editorial

Audacious imagination

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

On making a counter-intuitive move in a time of tightening belts.

Articles

An overflowing theme

by Aron Reppmann

Or "how I learned to stop worrying and love abundance."

The piles behind the screen

by Sarah Phillips

How the marriage of simplicity and stashing survives under the same roof.

Recycled abundance

by Sophie Blanc

Remembering the Barter Sale at boarding school in Pakistan and the lessons it's still teaching.

Quantity and quality

by Andrew Rogers

A new angle on abundance shapes a shift in relationship.

Hunger for abundance

by Robert Minto

On reorienting our desires toward an incomprehensible mystery.

Conversation: “Life Abundant”

by The *cino Community

Your opportunity to contribute thoughts about abundance and scarcity.

Reviews

What consumes us?

by Brent Aldrich

A review of the book Enough: Contentment in An Age of Excess by Will Samson.

Evil Genius series is conscious techno-fiction

by Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence

A review of the young adult novel Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks.

Don’t tell

by Raymond Blanton

A review of d. Guillaume Canet's film Tell No One.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Rich mom, poor mom--all in one

by Amy Carpenter Leugs

Thinking about abundance in a new way inspires a new and evolving vision for relationships.

Give me my daily bread?

by Abby Jansen

A prophetic prayer to feed the hungry in our communities and around the world.

We are what we keep

by Meredith Kathryn-Case Gipson Hoogendam

What is the difference between keeping and possessing?

Weaving the web

The Liturgy of Abundance, The Myth of Scarcity

Religion Online

Walter Brueggeman traces the history of abundance and scarcity as ways of being through the biblical narrative.

Abundance for sharing

Mustard Seed Associates

Christine Sine on experiencing -- and being -- God’s generosity in times of financial uncertainty.

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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