catapult magazine

Items tagged efficiency

• House of inefficiency

  A "Gen-X slacker" explains the theology behind his habits.

• Fast food and forgetfulness

  Can our eating habits really induce us to forget God?

• For everything there is a season

  On discerning when to practice efficiency and inefficiency.

• Fast food fast track

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

• Musings on an inefficient life

  Living life at the pace of a wood burning stove.

• As if eternity were real

  Lessons in (in)efficiency from work at a retreat center.

• A library sketch in three acts

  Pondering efficiency and inefficiency at work.

• In the balance

  A reflection on the seduction of efficiency.

• Lawn mowers and business letters

  Exploring the irony of efficiency in certain forms of technology.

• The human and the holy

  Reflecting on cultural definitions of efficiency and inefficiency.

• A model of inefficiency

  Why the built environment matters in shaping priorities and possibilities.

• Call me old-fashioned

  A case for goodness of the handwritten note.

• Beautiful inefficiencies

  A reflection in words, photos and video about the possibilities of an autumn staple.

• The Pendleton coat

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

• What’s the real issue here?

  Questioning both the wholesale acceptance and critique of progress.