catapult magazine

vol. 6, num. 2 :: 2007.01.26 — 2007.02.09

For folks in certain parts of the world, January is a time when weather can force us to slow down, stay indoors. What happens when we stop? Stop running, stop speaking, stop being afraid, stop hating, stop smoking, stop…?

Feature

Gainful unemployment

by Peggy Deames

A resigned nurse learns to be still and value a new kind of productivity.

Seeking the still point

by Margaret Jenista

A summer in a national park teaches the difference between productivity and fruitfulness.

Editorial

Remembering how

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A recounting of lately stumbled-upon wisdom regarding grace, redemption and forgiveness.

Articles

In the difficult moment

by Heidi De Jonge

The mother of an infant girl struggles to stay in the present through crisis.

Eight days of silence

by Phil Reinders

An account of a sabbatical retreat and an invitation to a firsthand experience.

Bird feeders

by Denis Haack

On a simple discipline for learning to be still.

Reviews

A lonely planet

by Raymond Blanton

A review of the film Notes On A Scandal directed by Richard Eyre.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Retreating into the Fray

by Naomi R. Wenger

The "how" and "why" of taking a spiritual retreat.

The art of waiting

by Steve Lansingh

What do we do in the moments that add up to eternity?

?God is the interesting thing?

by Jamie Howison

St. Benedict?s Table strives to cultivate a liturgy for vital worship.

Weaving the web

Retreat International

A directory of retreat centers throughout the U.S. and Canada, with resources for potential retreatants.

Birding Babylon

Orion Magazine

Excerpts from a blog kept by Seargeant First Class Jonathan Trouern-Trend on bird watching during his tour in Iraq.

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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