catapult magazine

Items tagged calling

• A divine calling to deception

  Louise Erdrich's new novel presents fully human characters who struggle to navigate the gray areas of life and find salvation in a contradictory world.

• *cino needs YOU

  As we live in a spirit of gratitude, we can also actively seek to receive God's blessings.

• Practice for the "real world"

  College students who participate in the *cino off-campus program will learn how to practically apply the principles they're learning in school to life after college.

• A waste of time?

  I thought liberal arts classes would be boring, until I started finding God in every one of them.

• Claim your calling

  How can the body function if one part is missing? or worse yet, performing the wrong task?

• Forty hours of purpose

  Is there a secret to identifying your true vocation? Perhaps it starts with asking the right questions.

• I Chronicles 14, and What Is God Asking Me To Do?

  How can a called writer patiently fulfill his monumental task?

• Sam the Cat

  Unexpected love and lessons from a stray.

• The craft of automotive mechanics

  On what happens when an individual fulfills a calling with excellence.

• Job stories

  Members and friends share stories and ideas relating to their work experience.

• Confessions of weakness

  Investigating the root causes of the desire to escape illuminates a path for growth.

• On calling

  An unexpected crisis is transformed an unexpected encounter.

• The beloved community

  A social work student wrestles with the relationship between activism and redemption.

• Money and stuff

  On discovering a biblical approach to fundraising.

• Shaping the culture that shapes you

  An interactive session on what it means to serve Christ through business.

• A road map, in retrospect

  A reflection on the questions and people that led a math and physics major to seminary.

• Shifting my weight

  An evangelical expatriate considers what led to her most recent major life change.

• Painting the Incarnation

  On the incarnation of ideas into art in Chaim Potok’s acclaimed novel, My Name is Asher Lev.
  

• On being a loser at 30

  An older self and a younger self in dialogue about (dis)contentment.

• Identity and vocation

  On the search for purpose, via the story of playwright Horton Foote.

• A cage of my own

  On finding comfort in familiarity, even in unfamiliar places.

• Gift enough

  On discovering true family and truer hope in a new place.

• Choosing to be single?

  Recounting a journey toward acceptance and intentionality.

• Of drunken birds and calling to best friendship

  A reflection on adulthood, hard friendships and the nature of commitment.

• Do not enter

  On following Jesus into forbidden territory.

• The sound of a calling

  A personal narrative of resistance and acceptance.

• Hung up

  Should Christians care more than they do about the issue of nuclear weapons?

• Up off the floor

  A pastor reflects on the fitting elusiveness of perfection.

• Outside in

  Moving from transplanted strangers to homemaking exiles.

• Why *cino is not a church

  A report from the *cino talks on one of the big questions.