catapult magazine

vol. 4, num. 21 :: 2005.11.18 — 2005.12.01

So many of the relationships we depend on every day are invisible threads, tying us to real people around the world. How can we nurture these relationships faithfully, even as we enter into a celebration of all for which we are grateful?

Feature

Christians circle the Burger King's castle

by Will Braun

Activists see action at fast food giant as a sacrament for an age of transnational injustice.

Editorial

More than an egg

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Thoughts on being a responsible global Christ-follower in the big world.

Articles

The cost of short-term missions

by JoAnn Van Engen

Americans spend millions of dollars each year on short-term mission trips to developing countries. Do these trips do more harm than good?

Natural asylum

by Ryan Snuffer

On the natural environment as a house of worship.

Reviews

The power of presence

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A review of the German film Rosenstrasse, set during the successful women?s protest in Nazi Germany.

Gallery

Middle Voice

by Benjamin Groenewold Van Dyk

Khan al Khalili

by Pegi Ballenger

In case you missed it the first time

Global trade and fair trade

by Fred Van Geest

What makes global trade a moral issue and what can we do to ensure the welfare of workers worldwide? It's not as hard as you might think.

<I>The Next Christendom</I> is here

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Philip Jenkins? compelling book explores current and future trends in Christian growth as the world?s largest religion moves South and East.

Emphasizing global citizenship

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

An interview with Tom Meyers, director of the Study Service Term program at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana.

Given with love

by Sarah Walsh Landini

Shopping for Christmas gifts can be an opportunity to practice our deepest values.

Weaving the web

Planting against poverty

Bruderhof Communities

An interview with Wangari Maathai, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

Soft Difference

North Park Seminary

Theological reflections on the relation between Church and culture in I Peter by Miroslav Volf.

Journey between worlds

Journal of Lutheran Ethics

An article on economic globalization and Martin Luthers ?God Indwelling Creation? philosophy by Cynthia Moe-Lobeda.

Columns

Blaspheming in the chapel

by Kate Bowman Johnston

Calvin College?s choice to host a concert by Wilco?s Jeff Tweedy sparks interesting debate on fan sites.

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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