catapult magazine

Items tagged nature

• No tears flow at the mall

  Teaching children how to have a relationship with the natural environment cures an ache that is only temporarily dulled by material things.

• Spring for *cino

  New life is everywhere and summer is near.

• Learning to see the sprouting

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Ephemeral art

  What Goldsworthy and Christo have in common.

• Kitchen scraps and theology

  How to worship God through composting.

• Natural asylum

  On the natural environment as a house of worship.

• Top Ten re: nature

  Memories travel over all kinds of terrain.

• 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.

• The nature of humanity

  Werner Herzog?s documentary Grizzly Man turns a man who wants to turn into a bear into a tragic hero instead.

• Second baptism

  A solitary journey into the woods leads to transformation.

• The delusions of a "single-family dwelling"

  A morning in the back yard with Squirt the cat reveals the community of nature.

• Bird feeders

  On a simple discipline for learning to be still.

• The Thing

  Confessions of a chronic dabbler.

• Gardening lessons

  A series of columns travels through the seasons of nature and of life.

• Gardening lessons

• Paddling through history

  A new hobby reveals a back yard full of stories and beauty.

• Bay window

  Home is where the beach is...for now at least.
  

• State of dress

  A series of images documenting a state-by-state art installation project.

• Art is in the house!

  A conversation between married partners about the ideas behind the art that decks their walls and shelves.