catapult magazine

Items tagged grace

• Mouthwash, midnight and a monologue

  Looking back at a mile marker on a journey toward greater freedom.

• Remembering how

  A recounting of lately stumbled-upon wisdom regarding grace, redemption and forgiveness.

• Hidden treasure

  A review of the album Throwing Punches in the Dark by Matthew Perryman Jones

• And heals all your diseases

  A sermon on Psalm 103 from a service of healing.

• The secret lives of dresses, Vol. 1

  On the memories that can become woven into the fabric of our clothing.

• The sacrament of laundry

  Within the folds of clean clothes, a mother discovers something about her own mother.

• Nazis and fashionistas

  How two films opened a window on walking ideas.

• Grace-pitality

  A rambling vacation yields delight, generosity and gratitude.

• Dealing with differences

  The difficulty of seeing other cultures-and our own-with eyes wide open.

• Outside looking in

  Remembering Simone Weil and a middle school band of misfits.

• Lights and darks

  A single mother living with her parents puts a few thoughts on the proverbial clothesline for examination.

• Some books bite. Good books leave scars.

  A shameless fanboy's reflection on books that help us believe.

• An open letter to literature

  Chronicling an English major's complicated relationship with books.

• Coming to consciousness

  How adults and children can walk together on the journey toward discovering grace and self.

• Moving in grace

  A time of transition yields lessons about identity and forgiveness.

• A call to grace

  Why is the church often the last place people find acceptance?

• Hard lessons

  A review of L.L. Barkat's Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places, a collection of biblical reflections.

• Grace is like a box of chocolates

  On understanding a creative reality through images.

• Gift enough

  On discovering true family and truer hope in a new place.

• Summer came early

  Reflections on experiences and lessons in joy, looking back on a life in the midst of death.

• Joy and…

  A difficult summer prompts reflections on the problem of joy.

• Fidelity and fecundity

  A farmer reflects on lessons from twelve years of harvests that apply to growing vegetables and far beyond.

• God helps

  A visual and narrative reflection on God the Guide.

• Fog

  On learning to trust after life changes in a split second.

• Souvenirs

  Ten lessons to treasure heading into life after fifty.

• A foretaste of the feast to come

  A reflection on a full-bodied model for teaching, celebrating and practicing communion.

• Look around you!

  A review of Nora Gallagher's book The Sacred Meal.

• Freely given

  Thoughts on the question of (not) registering for gifts.

• When you point your finger...

  Re-examining the checklist for who's in and who's out.

• Coming to a complete stop

  Can a rule of life turn a Martha into a Mary?