catapult magazine
vol. 5, num. 6 :: 2006.03.24 — 2006.04.07
Reflections on our memories from our teen years and the nature of being a teen-ager today.
Feature
The miracle and tragedy of the yellow duckling
Thoughts on growing up from one who is still engaged in the process.
Editorial
Kissing and telling
On what our own teen experiences can teach us about being adults in the lives of teen-agers.
Articles
Donut theology
Lessons about the first Parent of us all learned in the pastry shop.
Himalayan idyll
A meditation on the serious business of being a child.
Let your child be?
What's the best way to raise children with genuine self-esteem?
The other side of the bridge, or ?2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten?
A high school reunion inspires reflection about change and growing up.
Reviews
A landscape of stark beauty
A review of the music of Sigur R?s.
Gallery
In case you missed it the first time
School of Rock replaces irony with enthusiasm
A review of Jack Black's film School of Rock.
Coolness kills community
A timeless craze threatens to isolate teen-agers from other people and from God.
Loving/work
The 9-year-old Empire Records provides something worth emulating.
Parenting without perfection
A review of David John Seel?s Parenting without Perfection: Being a Kingdom Influence in a Toxic World.
Weaving the web
Youth culture and growing up
Mardi Keyes looks at popular perceptions and misperceptions of youth compared to experience and biblical wisdom.
Commodified Kids
An article by Paul Robertson uses Alissa Quart's Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teen-Agers as a jumping-off point for looking at teens and marketing.
Understanding your teenager's doubt
Jerram Barrs explores positive adult responses to the period of important faith questions in a teenager's life.
Columns
Accountability ahead
The journey to conform to Christ takes a right turn in a small group setting.
daily asterisk
I am holding half an acre
Torn from a map of Michigan
And folded in this scrap of paper
Is a land I grew in.
Hem
“Half an Acre”
from Rabbit Songs
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