catapult magazine

Items tagged consumerism

• Jamming the mass media

  Kalle Lasn's Culture Jam, while plentiful in justifiable critique, lacks vision for proceeding against the problems of mass media. However, the need for vision is where Christians have a lot to offer.

• Cheaper, bigger, better and more convenient than ever

  Approaching advertising with discernment involves a willingness to establish values in advance and to be fully awake when viewing.

• So what?

  Analyzing advertising statistics and asking why Christians should care.

• Small and wonderful

  A tour through the quirky Long Lake Food and Book Shop exposes the reasons small businesses are important and resilient.

• Enough is enough

  A new book by Arthur Simon challenges Christians to develop a response to rampant consumerism.

• Energizing memories

  Can the American church remember its purpose and reclaim its identity?

• A question before pitching

  Though they take more work, there are many alternatives to sending something to the landfill.

• Reality servanthood

  Is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition philanthropic?or pornographic?

• The clarity of a dumpster

  Could filling a roll-off be considered a spiritual discipline?

• Dressing up is hard to do

  Reflection on the lost art of getting gussied up.

• did somebody say?

• Imperial cohabitation

  An evaluation of the messages that limit our household vision.

• Secondhand subversive

  Shopping to dismantle the empire, one article of clothing at a time.

• Something that won’t compute

  Embracing downward mobility in the already-but-not-yet Kingdom of God.

• Being Bethlehem

  All creation is groaning...and someone has to push.

• Feasting on scraps

  Considering the practice of dumpster-diving.

• Save the kids

  A reflection on branding and the Church's responsibility toward our children.

• Satisfaction guaranteed

  The how and why, the true and false, and the good and bad of branding.

• Sweeping, not swept up

  On scrubbing consumerism's stain out of our cleaning rituals.

• My “go local” rant

  Raising critical questions about the goodness and integrity of a local focus.

• Connoisseurship and the art of moving

  What questions should we be asking of a potential new place ... and perhaps of ourselves?

• Ten ways to be a better Christian community

  Exploring biblical themes for living life well together.

• Imaginations in recovery

  Diagnosing the symptoms of a society sick with profitic imagination.

• Living the homemade life

  How a forced transition became a welcome change.

• Craft lust

  Confronting the luxury of DIY porn.

• Quitting consumerism

  Calling all students -- and myself -- to turn toward the upside-down Kingdom (again).

• Being known

  Don’t let your heart go cheap.