catapult magazine

vol. 3, num. 3 :: 2004.01.30 — 2004.02.12

In a post 9/11 world, how do we approach issues of war and human rights? Is there such a thing as a just war? Is pacifism effective? How do we protect individual citizens from oppression in the middle of large-scale political negotiations?

Feature

Wrong on rights

by none-applicable

A sobering quiz demonstrates how, even in an increasingly connected world, keeping up with human rights abuses is difficult at best.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

by none-applicable

Find out what world leaders have determined to be reasonable expectations for citizens of this world.

Editorial

Building a just house

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Should efforts toward the right to read what we want be eclipsed by efforts to ensure basic human dignity for our brothers and sisters around the world?

Articles

Blessed are those who are persecuted

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

An interview with Bob Martin from the Bible League.

Peace . . . in you?

by Stephen Mitchell

The implications of peace go beyond politics.

Moving toward pacifism

by Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma

On the struggle to discover a biblical approach to war and peace.

Reviews

On the need for monks

by Bill Boerman-Cornell

The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman discusses tactics for survival in the coming dark age.

The moral structure of Middle Earth

by Robert Moll

Matthew Dickerson's Following Gandalf follows the post-movie trend in analyzing Tolkein's works.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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