catapult magazine

Items tagged anxiety

• Appropriately anxious or insanely cocky?

  How should we live as Christians in culture? A lesson from Paul and Silas.

• Prozac, Paxil, Nortriptyline--Go Noyeses!

  An exploration of how prescription medication can affect quality of life for a family.

• Recycled abundance

  Remembering the Barter Sale at boarding school in Pakistan and the lessons it's still teaching.

• Recovering joy

  What can we do when we discover our joy has been stolen from us?

• Does Shane Claiborne use Google?

  Google knows ten things to be true...so what are our certainties?

• The end

  Welcome to the longest reality show ever.

• Recovering an ancient vision for popular culture

  A review of Journey to the Common Good by Walter Brueggemann.

• All tensed up with someplace to go

  What to do when the system's getting you down...even in your sleep.

• Naked dreams

  If you confess your sins to a lion in the jungle, does anybody hear them?

• Fact vs. truth

  A childhood of gathering evidence gives way to an adulthood of storytelling.

• Can music save your mortal soul?

  A reflection on suffering and hope in the music of Martyn Joseph.

• Mom guilt

  Surveying 26 years of marriage, parenting and wrestling with depression.

• The perfect husband I am not

  Confessions of a spouse struggling with his own faults and his partner's depression.

• What I wish I'd known then

  Advice to a teen-aged self struggling with anxiety.

• Generation X, the Cold War and faith

  Reflecting on the legacy of the father of the H-bomb.

• If you want to teach well

  A short lesson on listening to and appreciating children for who they are.

• Kicking coffee with Maxine Hong Kingston

  Recounting a beverage battle that led to new insight.

• Losing a cell phone, losing perspective

  Overreacting to a “first world problem” gives occasion to reconsider one’s feelings.

• Ten lies artists tell themselves

  An art director and illustrator speaks to fellow artists from experience.

• The clothes make the man?

  Reflecting on a new phase of life as a basketball referee.

• The weight of history

  Looking back at small town family origins in Ohio.

• Take thou authority

  An ordained minster reflects on the source of her calling.

• Humans being

  Life lessons from a friend newly retired.

• Body image

  A woman walks into a bar, wondering, “What are bodies for?”

• The stone

  A monologue about the search for identity and belonging.