catapult magazine

vol. 7, num. 2 :: 2008.01.25 — 2008.02.08

Much of our lives, from locking our front doors to choosing our neighborhoods to advocating for defense strategy, revolve around minimizing risk and ensuring a safe, predictable existence. On myths, decisions and hopefulness related to the idea of security.

Feature

Sinking down

by Daniel Silliman

On gaining a "sense of place" through knowledge of nightmares.

Editorial

The pursuit of happiness

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

An attempt to make sense of childhood longings.

Articles

The cousin village, the play date, and the commune

by Bill Boerman-Cornell

What does community have to do with safety?

Safe at home

by Nicole Carlin

A mother considers the relationship between safety and community in her household.

Seeing our delusions die

by Deborah Leiter Nyabuti

On dismantling the securing illusions of ourselves and others.

Jesus isn’t crazy

by Micah Tillman

Living into Christ's light burden when human relationships are tested.

(In)Security and the Fall

by Jason Barr

Eve Ensler’s Insecure at Last prompts theological reflection on the lie of security.

Security for sale

by Katie Houston

On quieting one’s own fears and keeping a house safe for two kids.

Reviews

Leaning, leaning

by Raymond Blanton

P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood and security in the American Dream.

Assessing risk with eyes wide open

by Adam Navis

A review of Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk by Ben Carson, M.D., with Gregg Lewis.

Grant’s recommendations 1.25.08

by Grant Elgersma

From the life and influence of Bob Dylan chronicled in I’m Not There to Mike Judge’s take on the future of the U.S. in Idiocracy.

Gallery

No Stars Without Stripes

by Raymond Blanton

In case you missed it the first time

Late night thoughts on addiction as symptom

by Reverend Lawrence W. Farris

A reflection that reframes the assumption that addiction is an illness.

Confessions of a recovering Pharisee

by Ryan Snuffer

A tee totaling re-convert discovers the nuances of Christian liberty.

High on security

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A call to acknowledge suffering even as we celebrate good gifts.

Weaving the web

A Citizen’s Response to the National Security Strategy

Orion Magazine

Wendell Berry invites readers to reconsider the difference between peace and passivity in 2003.

Return to the City

Burnside Writers Collective

Jarrod Shappell on the Church and the security of suburban sprawl.

Vulnerability and security

Journal of Lutheran Ethics

Brazilian theologian Wanda Deifelt on the incarnation’s call to live into the tension between vulnerability and security.

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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