catapult magazine

vol. 7, num. 22 :: 2008.12.05 — 2008.12.19

Ideas become movements. Knowledge becomes behavior. An Advent celebration of the ways in which the intangible takes on flesh and the tangible takes on infinite meaning after the model of God becoming human.

Feature

Incarnational Meditation Exercises 1-3

by Grant Elgersma

Preparing for the Christmas celebration during Advent by touching, visiting and living.

Editorial

Out of our heads

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Considering ways of knowing in a season that calls us into our bodies.

Articles

Waiting

by Stephanie Smith

A reflection on the purpose of imposed patience.

In the flesh

by Zena Neds-Fox

On the Divine's experience of love from within a body.

From Buster to Batman

by R. Ashleyne Seitz

The blessings and curses of growing beyond imaginary friends.

Hi, there

by Rebecca Warren

A reflection on God entering the world as a newborn baby.

Are we there yet?

by Deborah Leiter Nyabuti

How impatience can affect the stories we tell and the ways in which we remember.

Conversation: “Incarnate”

by The *cino Community

Your opportunity to be a part of the conversation about the everyday implications of the Incarnation.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Late night thoughts on incarnation

by Reverend Lawrence W. Farris

What does it mean to be fully human?

How to have a meaningful Christmas

by Mother Clare Watts

Embracing mystical experience as a means of understanding the incarnation.

Weaving the web

The Dress Project

Curator Magazine

Tala Strauss evaluates a month long experiment in wearing one dress.

A Community of the Broken Among the Broken: An Attempt at Participating in the Incarnation

Mustard Seed Associates

Chris Heuertz on the efforts of Word Made Flesh to be agents of Christ’s love in India.

Columns

Some keep the Sabbath

by Meredith Kathryn-Case Gipson Hoogendam

A humble home liturgy inspires confession and remembering.

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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