catapult magazine

Items tagged death

• Leave your slumber

  On hearing the alarm clock sound within the ordinary.

• Restoring the connection

  A reflection on Psalm 22 and communication technology.

• Dust to dust, bone to bone, nothing to nothing

  Reflecting on privilege and the manageability of death by natural or unnatural causes.

• The presence of the past

  On how war imposes its memory long after the ceasefire.

• Second time around

  On the (merciful) complexities of choosing moral positions within the context of human relationships.

• My mom’s first date

  A daughter's perspective on her young widowed mother's re-entry into the dating scene.

• Ashes, ashes

  Good news delivered from a dark pulpit on a Wednesday: dead is alive.

• Weighty friends

  Remembering friends whose presence brought a sense of rootedness, even in their diversity.

• An affectionate soul

  A tribute to a feline friend who, for a short time, demonstrated unconditional love.

• He puts the lonely in families

  A meditation on the life and death of a friend who called upon others to care.

• Dave + Lenore

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

• Ashes round the yard

  Putting the search for direction in the context of death.

• Last moments

  Finding hope in the middle of grieving an unexpected loss.

• Scott

  An uneasy legacy tied together with the thread of a shared name.

• Living well

  On shaping a life that will honor the memory and the suffering of those who have gone before.

• Crying he makes

  A call to embrace both joy and sorrow as we remember the birth of Immanuel.

• A wild ride

  A reflection on the one-year anniversary of a major injury.

• From a death we should be glad of?

  A reflection on the merits of an underappreciated season.

• The shores of Lent

  A reflection on the time when death washes up on the liturgical year.

• The weight of dust

  A reflection on the significance of the human body. 

• College the second time around

  Reflecting on a return to school at 28 years old.

• Generation X, the Cold War and faith

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

• Generations of UNO

  A game that hasn't skipped a generation yet.

• Baptized in humanity

  Realizations among the clash of cultures on a Miami vacation.

• Returning to the end

  Exploring the theme of grief in Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life.

• Death unto life

  A report from *culture is not optional in a season of reflection.

• The season of dying

  A short meditation on the brilliance of death.

• Learning to die

  Embracing the season’s reminder of mortality.

• She heightened my awareness of the world

  Remembering a grandmother's legacy.

• Which good life?

  Following the trail of a neighbors death into the dense thicket of defining a life well-lived.