catapult magazine

vol. 12, num. 12 :: 2013.06.07 — 2013.06.20

Bullying in schools is a hot topic these days, and justifiably so, but the realities of social hierarchy don’t end with high school graduation. What does it look like to stand with those who are socially, politically and economically marginalized at any age? What is the role of power and privilege in doing the right thing, from pre-school into adulthood?

Feature

Hidden

by Deborah Lewis

A pastor writes about having a stepson with special needs.

God! What’s that?

by Pete Post

Looking back at the life of a friend who was inspiring and unique, inside and out.

Editorial

Lovely in eyes

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Learning to turn around and see each other.

Articles

Writing Maleek: A prayer

by Amy Carpenter Leugs

The road to authoring a children’s book about hunger.

Blood on the pew

by Gary A. Chorpenning

Remembering the day in March 2000 when Charles appeared.

Fight the power

by Jeffrey Mays

A father’s philosophy on how to deal with bullying.

Surprised in the margins

by Laura Menze

Revisiting Matthew 25 and the call to care for the “least of these.”

Reviews

Home run

by Bill Boerman-Cornell

Albany Park Theater Project’s I Will Kiss These Walls invents a “theater of hope” in the face of foreclosure.

Gallery

There is no sign

by Laurie Baron

In case you missed it the first time

Speaking with strangers

by Brett Beasley

From St. Francis to Shakespeare, an endorsement for radical hospitality.

Stigma

by Name withheld

On a mother’s decision to keep a family secret...for now.

Weaving the web

Why you never truly leave high school

New York Times Magazine

Jennifer Senior writes about new science on high school’s corrosive, traumatizing effects.

In the devil house

Killing the Buddha

Greg Bottoms profiles the artist Frank Jones.

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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