catapult magazine

Items tagged creation

• The coyote's song

  A folk tale explores the creation of the world and the Fall--but what does the Fall have to do with the coyote's song? Featuring collages created by Ryan Vande Kraats.

• Offering hope for local food sources

  In his first year as a CSA farmer, the author is grounded in the faith values that sustain his hard work.

• Learning to see the sprouting

  A child's wonder at spring is inspiration to be amazed.

• Earth tones

  Race issues mark us all more deeply than superficial laws betray.

• Fear of falling

  How challenging our bodies can help us learn to take risks for the sake of obedience.

• Woods treasures

  Ideas for celebrating the beauty of nature by creating simple, found-object gifts.

• Writing life

  Is the common idea that the writer "plays God" a valid comparison?

• Faith and science

  How do we reconcile the debate between two visions of life?

• Learning from birds

  Wild, winged creatures manage to teach me who God is.

• A God's-eye view

  Flying inspires wonder that we are worthwhile.

• For the beauty of the earth

  The basics of cultivating and protecting God's good creation.

• Sam the Cat

  Unexpected love and lessons from a stray.

• Passing it on

  On teaching a new generation to care for creation.

• Inevitable

  A neighborhood full of trees inspires reflection.

• Nature walk on concrete

  A meditation on our character as beings who are part of, not separate from, creation.

• Creation and Christianity

  A review of The Reenchantment of Nature: The Denial of Religion and the Ecological Crisis by Alister McGrath.

• Lightning strikes up

  A treatise on trees for the season when trees take the place of honor in our homes.

• The gift of sleep

  God?s good creation and the space for rest.

• Music in the name of Christ

  A shorter catechism addressing seven big questions about music in God?s world.

• Partnership redeemed

  A service of marriage, performed on December 31, 2000.

• Natural asylum

  On the natural environment as a house of worship.

• Getting away

  Experiencing other cultures can offer a window into what may be lacking in our own.

• New poems from an old friend

  A review of Wendell Berry's Given: New Poems.

• All creatures of our God

  Consider the cat?

• Cleanliness and cruelty

  On discovering God in the shower.

• Thin place

  A story of discovering the place of refreshment.

• Agrarianism after modernity

  An exploration of the religious aspects of environmental crises and solutions.

• A place to be born

  Reflections on the character of creation in a greenhouse.

• Naming well

  Reading, writing and creation through naming.

• Cycles

  A tour through the creation and destruction inherent in the process of finding home.