catapult magazine

vol. 8, num. 4 :: 2009.02.13 — 2009.02.27

Don’t fall in love in a time of war. Don’t fall in love with someone of the same gender or a different race or another generation. Don’t love your kids too much. We internalize so many messages about love—romantic, platonic or otherwise—and yet it breaks through in astonishing ways, whether we invite it in or not.

Feature

A Love whose name cannot be spoken

by Larry Edward Kamphausen

An analysis of pop culture artifacts to expose myths about true love.

Editorial

Love in the time of softball

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Creative jock or an athletic artist? A reflection on a time of making decisions about love.

Articles

Thanks for love

by Katie Houston

On discovering that perfectly imperfect someone.

Conversation: “Subversive Love”

by The *cino Community

Your opportunity to contribute thoughts about empire and subversion.

Reclaiming Mardi Gras

by Marty Sartini Garner

A Louisiana native provides a closer look at Mardi Gras, a traditional time of celebration before Lent.

Reviews

Embodying our grief

by Christopher Smith

A review of the new book Fasting by Scot McKnight.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Sock feathers

by Simon duToit

A child's approach to language can remind us to leave our pride behind when we seek the kingdom.

Love is a pile of rocks

by Jeremy Huggins

What the journey to the Promised Land teaches us about God and memory.

Spiritual violence and hate crimes

by Barbara Lee

How preserving heterosexual privilege in the name of Christ defies the Gospel.

Weaving the web

Rom-coms ‘spoil your love life’

BBC News

Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed.

Prayers of a bird and boy

Killing the Buddha

A bird, a boy and an impossible pause in an unconventional “summer fling” essay by Daniel Silliman.

Matchmakers

This American Life

Four stories about attempts at making matches…of various sorts.

Columns

In defense of my generation

by Joseph Breems

A response to the charges of relativism that get lobbed across philosophical dividing lines.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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