catapult magazine

Items tagged confession

• Garbage or genius?

  A discussion starter on the works of art that we value in spite of a general consensus of worthlessness.

• Taking inventory

  What have I done lately that?s been wholly nourishing?

• Template <i>(Store for Future Use)</i>

  A letter for an as-yet unformed person, a letter imagined, and a letter that may never be sent.

• Something to say

  Reflections on catapult as a space for confession.

• The confessions of a fundamentalist librarian: On lust

  How the struggle with addiction is a struggle to reconcile the public and private self.

• Eight days of silence

  An account of a sabbatical retreat and an invitation to a firsthand experience.

• Land of abundance

  Three Rivers, Michigan promises destinations for many kinds of pilgrims, including the reluctant ones.

• Some keep the Sabbath

  A humble home liturgy inspires confession and remembering.

• Habits of the hands

  Spring rolls around again with broken earth and broken promises.

• Telling the truth

  Personal manifestos of confession and care giving illustrate the world -- shaping power-and the risks -- of convicted speech.

   

• Save a seat

  On discovering the weight of the sacred meal.

• The body, broken

  A lament after a case of church burn-out.

• A masterpiece conspiracy

  Are Christians standing on a solid rock or an empty shell?

• Let him hear

  A very short sermon on true religion.

• More weight

  Relieving the unbearable lightness of privilege.

• An apology to the pig farmer’s son

  Looking back on the vulnerability and cruelty of grade school.

• Dave + Lenore

  Life, confession and memory in the endless moment of illness.

• The perfect husband I am not

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

• FarmVille, faith and fallen sheep

  A confession about the virtual -- and actual -- pressure to win.

• Clutter, control and the freedom of simplicity

  The confession of a modest hoarder.

• Confession is optional

  Wrestling with the self stunted by addiction.

• Bad shepherd

  Confessions of a natural-born leader.

• The imperfect life

  On learning to open the windows again.

• Into the silence

  A pastor reckons with a retreat averted.

• Super Size my sanctification, please

  Sometimes, life is like a shamrock shake.

• Dressing my daughter

  A new mother responds to infant will.

• Growing apart, together

  What we leave behind when we cross state lines.

• Enough already

  A Holy Saturday lament over losses due to a new crude oil pipeline through the Hermitage and environs.

• Blood on the pew

  Remembering the day in March 2000 when Charles appeared.

• I am the little red hen

  Lessons learned from modern serfdom in a friend’s garden.