catapult magazine

Items tagged belonging

• Our towns

  *cino community members respond to questions about their hometowns.

• Where are you from?

  On the journey from a place of worry to a place of contentment.

• Imagine the Kingdom

  On what it means to be covenant people, discovered through the themes of Scripture.

• Gone south

  A Midwesterner in Tennessee reflects on alienation and belonging.

• Into exile

  An impending move prompt thoughts about belonging in a place.

• Squeezing the grape, acidic urine and the intentional fallacy

  On how vocabulary fosters a sense of community.

• The journey in…and back out

  How a local writers' group changed from being a place of belonging.

• Birds of a feather

  Learning from the ordinary spectacle of birds on a wire.

• The time that is left to us

  In the shadow of winter, a reflection on where we belong.

• The thirty-year itch

  On the tangle of questions and desires at the point of church transition.

• A messy life

  What happens when the mess in the house becomes a metaphor for the mess in other parts of life?

• Places, spaces and landscapes of home

  Wrestling with belonging between the lure of two continents.

• Left behind

  The existential crisis of the summer camp altar call.

• Learning to belong

  Considering what it means to feel at home as a child of traveling parents.

• Daring to belong

  A reflection on the community of Acts and accepting the invitation.

• A different kind of mom

  The quest to belong as a mother of special needs children.

• Membership

  Should the Church have requirements to belong?

• The language of belonging

  Encountering barriers on a much-anticipated trip to China.

• Caught in the middle

  Considering the differences between a mother’s and a father’s legacy of belonging.

• No one outside

  Considering the complicated relationship between identity and belonging.

• All people like me

  To travel, or to stay at home?  A question of identity.

• Summer home

  A reflection on the powerful hold a cottage can have on our hearts.

• Beware of planting Barbie corn

  Lessons from an experimental garden in Africa.

• Tree interference

  Remembering a backyard presence.

• The stone

  A monologue about the search for identity and belonging.