catapult magazine

vol. 3, num. 11 :: 2004.05.21 — 2004.06.03

"Have we trials and temptations?" Of course we do, sometimes in the form of life obstacles, sometimes in the form of actual tests and quizzes. How can sharing our thoughts and stories, failures and successes help others pass their own tests?

Feature

Cryin?, cheatin?, and leavin?

by Jeremy Huggins

A teacher?s assistant ponders what keeps him up all night grading students? papers.

Failure and hope

by Wm. Anthony Connolly

On the challenge of assigning students a grade and the qualities of ?failure.?

Editorial

Testing the spirits

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

What role do discernment skills play in our efforts to successfully engage culture?

Articles

More than I asked for

by Jessica Klepal

Prayer for a test yields a surprising lesson.

Setting the feet on the pathway

by Amy Carpenter Leugs

A parent chooses a unique form of education to help her sons develop a sense of "self."

Passing on love

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A gradfather?s death presents a challenge to love more deeply.

Reviews

Far-fetched truth

by Denis Haack

A review of Life of Pi by Yann Martel

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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