catapult magazine

Items tagged death

• Remember that time...

  A grandfather’s death brings an opportunity to reflect on family stories.

• Death in the family

  A grandmother’s stories about death and destruction warrant both laughter and love.

• Funerals in Egypt

  Exploring the contrast between Egyptian and North American funerals.

• Christian funerals

  A collection of ideas on the structure and purposes of funeral services.

• A thousand years

  An autumn evening prompts reflection on numbering our days.

• Goodbye

  A eulogy for Ferrari Mundy (Winter 1989-Summer 2007).

• Do not go gentle into that good night

  An analysis of the film In the Valley of Elah.

• An ordinary day

  A review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, a film depicting a high school shooting that is alternately sensitive and detached.

• A Christmas reflection on an extraordinary life

  A time of year when families traditionally gathers prompts thoughts about a mother’s identity.

• A shifting image

  On family gatherings marked by new life and loss.

• Ten things to do before I die

  A list of experiences to savor after fifty.

• A chisel to remember him by

  A simple tool can tell a book’s worth of memories.

• Just relax

  A lesson from Gamaliel about human movements and God’s movement.

• The Death of Rachel

• Thanks for love

  On discovering that perfectly imperfect someone.

• Memorable leaves

  How a book became a companion in pained solitude.

• When light emerges through the darkness

  On two authors who served as wise, faithful companions in the midst of uncertainty.

• Why I am still listening to Sufjan Stevens

  Confessions of a music lover who can't get enough of the enigmatic singer songwriter's juxtapositions.

• Ears to hear

  A reflection on the songs that we let in, and the songs that we shut out.

• Summer came early

  Reflections on experiences and lessons in joy, looking back on a life in the midst of death.

• A recall for arms

  A review of Armageddon in Retrospecti, Kurt Vonnegut's posthumously published collection of short stories and other bits.

• A eulogy in 12 days

  Chronicling an unconventional friendship, in life and in death.

• Best friends

  Remembering the transformation of objects in a time of mourning.

• A wonderful life

  On family rituals as occasions to pass down heirloom memories of joy and sorrow.

• The Gospel of the Birth Story

  A reading that embraces the images of birth woven throughout the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

• New life

  How hours of pain and anger broke through to love.

• The spectacular death of Vic Chesnutt

  A eulogy for a musician, by a musician.

• Pre-guilt and the suffering Herod

  A narrative glimpse into the historic mind of a regretful king.

• Tumbling into openness

  Road tripping and reflecting on maps and borders.

• Life within death

  On the difficulty of living into human purpose in the way of the resurrection.