catapult magazine

Items tagged desire

• The Scandal of Harry Potter

  A discerning look at the controversial series reveals common misconceptions about fantasy.

• Seeking godly sexuality

  *cino survey reveals a broad range of ideas and models for how we can honor God with our bodies.

• The subtle uses of the knife

  A review of the film Closer.

• Needing home

  Will a place to lay my head ever materialize?

• Judgment calls

  What the world teaches us about the labels we place on ourselves.

• Addicted to love

  A review of Jolie Holland's album Springtime Can Kill You.

• Eight days of silence

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

• Monolithic Secrets

  A review of the film Little Children.

• Grant’s recommendations 11.16.07

  From Pieces of April and an album of 69 love songs by its music director to the dark alienation of Nick Cave and Grinderman.
  

• Love, love, love…doo doo doo-doo-doo!

  A written tour of an imaginary musical.

• Recycled abundance

  Remembering the Barter Sale at boarding school in Pakistan and the lessons it's still teaching.

• Hunger for abundance

  On reorienting our desires toward an incomprehensible mystery.

• All tensed up with someplace to go

  What to do when the system's getting you down...even in your sleep.

• Screening desires

  A reflection on the ways in which film can shape who we are and who we wish to become.

• A dangerous adventure

  A review of the book The Ignorant Schoolmaster by Jacques Rancière.

• Sacredness in the margins

  On the characters who teach us how to accept life around the edges of a big story.

• Simplicity...really?

  Lessons from a history of accidentally going without.

• Super Size my sanctification, please

  Sometimes, life is like a shamrock shake.

• Connoisseurship and the art of moving

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

• Weight

  GUNS WANTED – need money for Christmas?

• The Pendleton coat

  Pondering lost connections, of both the human and the wooly, plaid kind.

• What should I have asked for?

  A review of the book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker.

• Being known

  Don’t let your heart go cheap.