catapult magazine

Items tagged evangelism

• I am the church, you are the church

  Where does *cino stand in relationship to the universal church? Here's an exploration of what our organization is and is not.

• Christ and Hollywood...in the same sentence?

  A Christian in the film industry introduces us to some reasons to have hope for Hollywood.

• The Church must change or die

  Brian McLaren's A New Kind of Christian, while evading some difficult questions, puts forth a good argument for the Church's need to adapt to postmodernism.

• Sabbath: Cultivating a God-conscious Life

  As creatures created to observe Sabbath, can we deny its integral role in our lives? An exploration of biblical and practical Sabbath.

• Commuting to Africa

  A North American woman finds home on a vast and colorful continent that inspires both incredible joy and difficult questions.

• To Russia, with love

  A mother of four leaves the North American continent for the first time to go on a mission trip to Russia (in the middle of winter).

• Blessed are those who are persecuted

  An interview with Bob Martin from the Bible League.

• The India journals

  Seeking questions and answers in another culture leads back home.

• On calling

  An unexpected crisis is transformed an unexpected encounter.

• The cost of short-term missions

  Americans spend millions of dollars each year on short-term mission trips to developing countries. Do these trips do more harm than good?

• Good News to the poor

  A trip to India inspires reflection on the nature of Christian evangelism and mission to the poor.

• A good kind of stuck

  Unlikely community emerges on the other side of a record-breaking January snowstorm.

• Bombardment

  The emotional and spiritual education of gym class.

• Out of right field

  An overview and analysis of Jack Chick’s graphic tracts.

• This book changed my life

  On experiencing a devalued catchphrase for one's self.

• Live Feed: Christians and Facebook are in a relationship.

  In what ways are Christians responding to new technology, to the detriment or benefit of the Church?

• The Gospel According to David Lynch

  A journey through an appropriately circuitous thought process on an elusive director.

• Sisters with a job to do

  The one who stays put reflects on two very different callings within the same family.

• Life within death

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

• For sale: Jesus

  On the bait-and-switch methods of contemporary evangelism.

• Saving numbers

  Questioning the church’s obsession with quantifiable data.