catapult magazine

vol. 3, num. 19 :: 2004.11.19 — 2004.12.02

For various reasons, people find themselves at the fringes of communities?of churches, of towns, of countries and even of global society. Who are these people and how can we attend to them? What is life like when we ourselves are outsiders?

Feature

Rumors of the <I>askani</I>

by Brett Alan Dewing

Claiming a powerful difference in the search for true identity.

Spiritual violence and hate crimes

by Barbara Lee

How preserving heterosexual privilege in the name of Christ defies the Gospel.

Editorial

On the edge of the world

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Indigenous farmers from Mexico offer opportunities to make the connection between righteousness and justice.

Articles

Death by ice or fire

by Janel Kragt Bakker

Life is a complicated game of Would You Rather? for a those who find pieces of home in two very different worlds.

Reviews

'Loosing' the Church to combat abuse

by Jennifer M. Parker

A review of T.D. Jakes' film, Woman, Thou Art Loosed.

Weaving the web

Listening to the other

Orion Magazine

Gary Paul Habhan on the importance of place in the process of healing for those displaced.

Security or segregation?

World Council of Churches

Eva Balslev and Sune Segal write about the humanitarian consequences of Israel?s Wall of Separation.

Columns

The evangelical expatriates

by Kate Bowman Johnston

A new breed of Christian inside-outsiders burgeons on the web and in the arts.

Apocalyptic draw

by Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Christian artists create work that can neither be explained nor dismissed.

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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