catapult magazine

Items tagged creativity

• Is Halloween a trick or a treat?

  We asked several of our members to respond to the questions, "What was Halloween like for you as a kid? If you have kids, what is your response to it now?"

• Sculpting light and sound

  A film maker shares something of her journey to the art form and the works that journey has produced so far.

• The role of redemption in the creative process

  A musician's perspective on how the recognition of failure leads to the realization of grace.

• Is your church fantasy-friendly?

  On the need to cultivate the fantasy-lives of believers in Spirit-filled churches.

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

  How can a called writer patiently fulfill his monumental task?

• Collaborative creation

  An artist learns to connect his craft with Sunday mornings.

• The price of postage

  Moving beyond legalistic environmentalism to attentive stewardship.

• The Little House life

  On skills, creativity and dependence.

• What to wear?

  Considering fashion on the college campus and beyond.

• Naming well

  Reading, writing and creation through naming.

• Sewing bat's ears

  A trip to the fabric store, inspired by the need for costumes, sparks creativity and wonder.

• Practice makes perfect

  How acts of creativity become holy, become prayer.

• Friction makes fire

  On the energy that results from tension within the self and within communities.

• A four-letter word

  Overuse of the word community beckons us to rediscover its meaning.

• Dressed up memories

  Friends of catapult respond to a call for reflections on dressing up.

• By quiet example

  A mother’s hobby becomes a subtle lesson in creativity and community.

• Turpentine

  A foray into the heart of the South and the heart of an artist.

• The Halloween Bunny

  A tale of disillusionment, for better or worse.

• Secondhand subversive

  Shopping to dismantle the empire, one article of clothing at a time.

• Love in the time of softball

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

• Table for one, please

  A review of Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, a collection of essays edited by Jenni Ferrari-Alder.

• Life from scratch

  A life tapestry woven of baking bread and growing food and bearing children.

• Old way, new way

  A new movement among women is going back to the basics.

• What I made

  Chronicling one week of creating something out of something by hand.

• Technology as the mediator of experience

  A reflection on the purposes of hands and how technology can both enhance and hinder those purposes.

• Things I carry with me

  A collection of thoughts gathered during time spent in Africa.

• Ten things we imagine at Huss School

  Modest proposals for the future life of 22,000 square feet and four acres.

• Global Spirit

  Ten world music albums that inspire wonder at the range of human creativity.

• A better story

  Is the devil really in the details?

• How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

  On the results of a steady diet from the industrial entertainment system.