catapult magazine

vol. 6, num. 9 :: 2007.05.04 — 2007.05.18

Planes and trains, people and places—various kinds of fuels feed their motion and existence. The coal-fired power plant keeps the lights on in the corner coffee shop where pop music propels a student toward the concluding paragraph. What principles guide our choices for what fuels our transportation and places? Beyond energizing our physical bodies, what powers our minds and spirits?

Feature

(Hyper)tension and energy

by Aron Reppmann

A tension of thought reveals itself in physical symptoms.

Editorial

Friction makes fire

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

On the energy that results from tension within the self and within communities.

Articles

Imaginative fancy and innocuous fantasy

by Raymond Blanton

A reflection on the energizing power, for better or worse, of imagination.

Stimulating imagination

by Rev. Peter Sawtell

On finding the energy to change the world through environmental practices.

Quick waiting

by Ellyn Wilkoff

A blessing for our passions to be energized by the long view.

Reviews

Get me through another day

by Raymond Blanton

A review of the film Pan’s Labyrinth exploring the film's imaginative qualities.

Transforming Reznor

by Grant Elgersma

Is NIN’s Year Zero the beginning of the beginning?

In case you missed it the first time

Energizing memories

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Can the American church remember its purpose and reclaim its identity?

Peak oil "to do" list

by Kurt Cobb

Why we should do these things anyway.

Late night thoughts on getting around while leaving a small footprint

by Reverend Lawrence W. Farris

Is transportation a moral issue?

Weaving the web

Stairway to Heaven

Orion Magazine

Tim Flannery explodes the myth of the hydrogen economy.

Don’t stop unbelieving

Killing the Buddha

Scott McLemee reviews a book about the bogey (wo)man of 20th century Christianity, Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

Readers write: Rebellion

The Sun Magazine

Magazine readers write on that often-energizing force of rebellion.

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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