catapult magazine

vol. 6, num. 20 :: 2007.11.02 — 2007.11.16

Whether we name it or not, our actions fundamentally emerge from a worldview, a way of understanding who we are and what our responsibility is in the world. The values that compose a worldview can come from many sources, can be absorbed intentionally or unintentionally, can lead to service or destruction.

Feature

Heaven’s gated communities

by Daniel de Roulet

How did contemporary evangelicalism catch such a dreadful disease?

Editorial

Aargh, are ye me matey?

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Certain manners of conviction can leave us feeling like outcasts in the empire.

Articles

To tell the story

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

An interview with Brenda Truelson Fox, director of the film Conviction.

Losing my convictions

by Ryan Snuffer

How letting go can turn into holding on in a better way.

Interrupting God

by Meredith Kathryn-Case Gipson Hoogendam

Two conversions become reflected in two different lexicons and perceptions of language.

A decameron of sneaky honesties

by Benjamin Seeberger

A tour of some of the author’s formative memories in search of the pattern of convictions.

Lies and the impeccable word

by Barbara Lee

What the parable of the rich man and Lazarus can teach us about discerning lies.

Reviews

A dream within a dream

by Raymond Blanton

On cinema conviction and Ang Lee’s Lust Caution.

Drowning in culture

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A review of Deepa Mehta’s Water.

Grant’s recommendations 11.2.07

by Grant Elgersma

A little Julie Lee, some Beginning to Pray, and a good dose of Transformers.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Regarding judgment

by David Howard Malone

Are we necessarily caught between conviction and relativism?

The fellowship of the guilty

by Stephen Mitchell

?By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin and so death passed upon all men.?

Coming down now

by Margie Haack

Learning to live together in a house built on a foundation of public promises.

Weaving the web

The Courage of Conviction

Sojourner’s Magazine

Jim Wallis interviews Senator Mark Hatfield upon his retirement in 1996.

What Fundamentalists Need for their Salvation

Orion Magazine

David James Duncan lays down the ideological gauntlet “in defense of truth, stewardship and neighborly love.”

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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