catapult magazine

Items tagged gender

• Lessons in relationship

  Understanding the nature of a healthy marriage relationship can lead us to a deeper understanding of what God wants from us in our relationship with Him.

• Wrong on rights

  A sobering quiz demonstrates how, even in an increasingly connected world, keeping up with human rights abuses is difficult at best.

• Bound by shame

  On the ability of the gospel?s messengers to bring healing to those who suffer from memories of sexual abuse.

• Reviving Messalina

  A review of the documentary Sex: The Annabel Chong Story.

• Unequal embrace

  Contextualizing a healthy sense of gender identity within a hierarchy of privilege.

• Finding my feminine

  Seeking good questions and good answers on a personal journey toward feminism.

• To be two

  A fantastic tale about losing--and finding--one's voice.

• Conversation: “Women’s Worlds”

  Your opportunity to be a part of the conversation about women and femininity.

• A Love whose name cannot be spoken

  An analysis of pop culture artifacts to expose myths about true love.

• And they lived happily ever after

  An overview and analysis of statistics related to single people.

• The impossibility of the nice Christian guy

  A prophetic history lesson in gendered images of Christianity.

• From ManZone to the <i>haka</i>

  Warrior-centric attempts at fostering male identity in church.

• I love you, (well-adjusted) man

  A review of John Hamburg's new bromantic comedy, I Love You, Man.

• Beyond competition

  On moving from victory through superiority to upholding one another in love.

• Defense (clap, clap) defense!

  A review of The Reason for Sports: A Christian Fanifesto by Ted Kluck.

• Shopping for love

  A cautionary tale from a renegade registering spree.

• Ten lessons you didn’t know you learned from Barbie

  What the iconic doll taught us beyond -- and sometimes instead of -- playing nice.

• Dark bird ascending

  A review of the film Black Swan, featuring Natalie Portman as a professional ballerina.

• Leading with humble hands

  Excavating the meaning and practices of humility.

• A borrowed dream: deferred

  A college professor recalls the complicated family legacy of women and education.

• Baptized in humanity

  Realizations among the clash of cultures on a Miami vacation.

• Women who teach

  Remembering the many women who taught me well.

• Luke’s journal

  A short fiction piece about life in the wrong body.

• The shame for which I weep

  When churches fail to offer acceptance and healing for gay and lesbian believers.

• Glimpses of the good life

  Reflecting on formational sights along the twenty-something leg of life’s journey.

• Why I am a Dolly Parton feminist

  On hearing a call toward equality for all people, tinged with a twang.

• How to quit like a scout

  Learning to trust the decisions we make in third grade.