catapult magazine

Items tagged decision

• Turning again

  A double review of The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong and You Can Go Home Again by Gene Logsdon.

• Shifting my weight

  An evangelical expatriate considers what led to her most recent major life change.

• Assessing risk with eyes wide open

  A review of Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk by Ben Carson, M.D., with Gregg Lewis.

• Land of abundance

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

• So I'm thinking of joining a monastery...

  And the decision is not quite as ironic as it might seem at first.

• Love in the time of softball

  Creative jock or an athletic artist?  A reflection on a time of making decisions about love.

• The roaring twenties

  On surrendering control and remembering how to play in a season of inevitable change.

• Planting trees

  An interview with Nicole Carlin about her family's work in Haiti.

• Shopping for love

  A cautionary tale from a renegade registering spree.

• How NOT to propose

  Some cautions toward focusing on what it's really all about.

• Planning and scanning with the idea of home

  Pondering gift registry in the final stages of planning a wedding.

• Second time around

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

• Community in the time of culture wars

  On the costliness of growing up into Christ-centered institutions.

• Should we stay or should we go?

  A review of the film Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois.

• Leading for the common good

  Lessons in leading from Nehemiah and the city council.

• A messy life

  What happens when the mess in the house becomes a metaphor for the mess in other parts of life?

• Blooms, dreams, roots, wings, aging and other things

  How a maxim has taken on meaning throughout a life.

• To plant or not

  The warmth of spring invites re-consideration of planting efforts.

• Fast food fast track

  Why going to college shouldn’t be like eating at McDonald’s.

• What is “a better checklist?”

  Reconsidering the life goals of a high school self.

• How to quit like a scout

  Learning to trust the decisions we make in third grade.

• For the love of music

  Looking back on a formative childhood decision.

• Schmotzer’s never...

  Reconsidering a family trait for persistence.