catapult magazine

Items tagged fear

• Feels like home

  How art became a way to feel at home in many different homes.

• Graphic

  Are graphic novels simply too graphic or is this a genre Christians should openly engage?

• BE HERE NOW (and later, too)

  Reflecting on a year-long experiment in time off.

• Bringing up Bart

  Imaging youth group as an expression of what we are for.

• God helps

  A visual and narrative reflection on God the Guide.

• Placing our hope

  Considering hope and fear twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

• Of drunken birds and calling to best friendship

  A reflection on adulthood, hard friendships and the nature of commitment.

• Being Bethlehem

  All creation is groaning...and someone has to push.

• Finding fact in fiction

  On trying to live out a costly vision after college.

• The invisible border

  Mapping a neighborhood by streets, class and color -- and hoping for a better way home.

• Recovering an ancient vision for popular culture

  A review of Journey to the Common Good by Walter Brueggemann.

• Hung up

  Should Christians care more than they do about the issue of nuclear weapons?

• Community in the time of culture wars

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

• Always

  A short story about a girl in the hospital and her twin in the mirror.

• Naked dreams

  If you confess your sins to a lion in the jungle, does anybody hear them?

• Now we begin

  On the relationship between solitude and serving others.

• He puts the lonely in families

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

• Fact vs. truth

  A childhood of gathering evidence gives way to an adulthood of storytelling.

• The lie of perfection

  On giving politicians permission to tell the truth.

• Ashes round the yard

  Putting the search for direction in the context of death.

• The soldier’s story

  An account of a mysterious disappearance from a member of Herod's army.

• A cleaning and a prayer

  An unexpected lesson in learning to pray through the fear of loss.

• Wait for it

  An impending job change prompts questions about future expectations.

• To enroll or not to enroll

  Ramblings about paying for college from a broke(n) prospective student.

• Raising a generation of courage

  On accepting the challenge of parenting post-9/11 kids.

• Generation X, the Cold War and faith

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

• Back to school

  What the Boomers need to re-learn about security.

• Waving back

  On the struggle to discover deep connections after college.

• If you want to teach well

  A short lesson on listening to and appreciating children for who they are.

• Sacredness in the margins

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