catapult magazine

Items tagged money

• A home for *cino

  A report on how the structure is progressing and how you can help with the next stages of building.

• The inevitable question

  The topic of our mysterious finances demands curiosity from others and honesty from myself.

• Loving/work

  The 9-year-old Empire Records provides something worth emulating.

• On thrift stores and things

  Second-hand stores are good sources of bargains--and stuff.

• The cost of short-term missions

  Americans spend millions of dollars each year on short-term mission trips to developing countries. Do these trips do more harm than good?

• Rich mom, poor mom--all in one

  Thinking about abundance in a new way inspires a new and evolving vision for relationships.

• What's yours is mine

  The acknowledgement of a personal myth opens to abundance.

• Money and stuff

  On discovering a biblical approach to fundraising.

• The clarity of a dumpster

  Could filling a roll-off be considered a spiritual discipline?

• Credit spending was my addiction

  A personal story of a journey that led to bankruptcy.

• Hocynipecism

  Emotional gleanings from the film Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.

• Top ten signs you’re a backpacker

  A list composed from experiential observations.

• Security for sale

  On quieting one’s own fears and keeping a house safe for two kids.

• No problem, Warren

  Ten organizations I would talk about if I were invited to dinner with Warren Buffet.

• Old way, new way

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

• Promised land gone

  Warning: asking long-time neighbors about family history might surprise you.

• Ten reasons I love to pay my taxes

  Reflections from a morning bike ride on the good things about chipping in.

• Paid in hope and heartbreak

  Why I volunteer -- and create opportunities for others to do the same.

• Volunteering as a way of life

  A recent graduate explores the benefits of full-time volunteering through Mennonite Voluntary Service.

• Ten new ways I hope to vote with my money this year

  A graduate student on a budget considers how to make her dollars reflect her passions.

• Finding fact in fiction

  On trying to live out a costly vision after college.

• The wedding planner

  Sorting out the essentials and non-essentials of the ceremony.

• Planning and scanning with the idea of home

  Pondering gift registry in the final stages of planning a wedding.

• The weight of the West

  What the author learned about food systems by cleansing her body of yeast and toxins.

• How to improve education in the United States

  Seven rules from the perspective of a parent and professional educator.

• To enroll or not to enroll

  Ramblings about paying for college from a broke(n) prospective student.

• Reframing brain drain

  Broadening the scope of "higher" education to value folkways.

• The imperfect body

  Wrestling with church as a single mother.

• The freedom of less

  Taking a simple lifestyle for granted -- and occasionally, as an idol.

• Home sale

  Head to head crypt, comes with a deed & your own lettering.