catapult magazine

Items tagged ideal

• Conversation: “When I Grow Up”

  Contribute your stories comparing your childhood ideals with the reality of growing up.

• A Love whose name cannot be spoken

  An analysis of pop culture artifacts to expose myths about true love.

• From oasis to desert island

  A short account of an ideal vision for community that came tumbling down.

• Isolation in community

  What happens when church becomes a social club with unwritten rules?

• The imperfect body

  Wrestling with church as a single mother.

• Emotional wreck

  Your kids were supposed to have perfect parents.  You were supposed to have perfect kids.  You’re all plain out of luck.