catapult magazine

Items tagged lament

• Open hands

  A tale of two situations, or how I learned to let go.

• Ten things we imagine at Huss School

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

• The invisible border

  Mapping a neighborhood by streets, class and color -- and hoping for a better way home.

• The body, broken

  A lament after a case of church burn-out.

• The BP oil spill: A Christian call for lament and reconciliation

  Resources for individuals and congregations to respond on June 20, 2010, the two-month anniversary of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

• Ashes, ashes

  Good news delivered from a dark pulpit on a Wednesday: dead is alive.

• Feasting on scraps

  Considering the practice of dumpster-diving.

• Can music save your mortal soul?

  A reflection on suffering and hope in the music of Martyn Joseph.

• Baptized in humanity

  Realizations among the clash of cultures on a Miami vacation.

• The way we were

  Remembering the small town grocery store and lamenting its loss.

• Women who teach

  Remembering the many women who taught me well.

• Popcorn and prophets

  Gathering around a screen toward repentance and lament.

• Put your whole self in

  Encouraging faith communities to lament together.

• Enough already

  A Holy Saturday lament over losses due to a new crude oil pipeline through the Hermitage and environs.

• Without bounds

  A lament from 900 miles up the pipeline.

• The earth speaks

  The directors of the Hermitage Community give voice to the land in the face of impending upheaval.

• Counterspeaking contradictions

  On the paradoxes of lament and hope, destruction and creation, failure and commitment.

• A time to lament

  The back story and a liturgy for a series of services of lament held by Peace Christian Reformed Church in South Holland, Illinois.

• In the shadow of sacred space

  Walking the pilgrim’s path between the cathedral and the bar.

• Celebrating in the darkness

  Suffering with others on the longest night of the year.

• Tree of forgiveness

  In consideration of the white pine.