catapult magazine

Items tagged Belief

• A Latin American Christmas creed

  A statement of beliefs fitting for holiday reflection.

• All you ever wanted to know about ?

  On seven stages in the journey of faith.

• My faith story

  On the stages that occur between the beginning and the present.

• This must be the place

  A walk around the neighborhood leads to the threshold of a timeless place.

• Who are <i>you</i>?

  A meditation on the complexity of describing our core selves in various kinds of company.

• The Society of Heretics and Believers

  Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Galileo?what do heretics past and present contribute to the community of faith?

• Let Christ invade your life

  How do we surrender to love as disciples of Christ in a broken world?

• Interrupting God

  Two conversions become reflected in two different lexicons and perceptions of language.

• The gift of life

  A moment of near tragedy becomes a moment of grace in the journey toward God.

• Is it believable?

  Expanding a commonly asked question about the Bible and Christian faith.

• Conversion as process

  Looking back reveals a series of small, significant revelations.

• Out of the closet, into the forest

  Reflection on a change in thinking that has had relational consequences.

• Some keep the Sabbath

  A humble home liturgy inspires confession and remembering.

• Things in nature that make me believe in God

  Lessons from cohabiting with animals within the house of creation.

• In defense of my generation

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

• Reworking the recipe

  On seeking to address a sense of missing ingredients in inherited tradition.

• Some books bite. Good books leave scars.

  A shameless fanboy's reflection on books that help us believe.

• Telling the truth

  Personal manifestos of confession and care giving illustrate the world -- shaping power-and the risks -- of convicted speech.

   

• Enough

  A short manifesto that's easy to memorize, but not always easy to live.

• Birthing wisdom in the place of brokenness

  On an image for practicing prayer that acknowledges what is and is not known.

• Roxxxy the Sex Robot

  How what we believe shapes what we make and what we make shapes what we believe.

• Come now, let us reason together

  A plea for unity among Christians.

• Fallibilism is true!

  Decartes vs. Paul on certainty, deception and human flourishing in the real world.

• Ashes, ashes

  Good news delivered from a dark pulpit on a Wednesday: dead is alive.

• Guerrilla gifting

  Learning to believe again, via the story of St. Nicholas.

• The myth of Santa: Fiction or lie?

  A parent's perspective on the man from the North Pole.

• Ten things I used to believe

  A challenging year shifts beliefs in some important ways.

• Ten reasons I believe in God ... and the devil, too

  Naming the evidence, large and small.

• The good life

  A call to creativity, grace and the correspondence of action and belief.

• How about a little heresy

  When it comes to unorthodox beliefs, you can ask, but not many will tell.