catapult magazine

Items tagged grace

• Fact vs. truth

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

• Truth without borders

  An interview with John Van Sloten, author of The Day Metallica Came to Church.

• The grace of time

  On making space for transition in our New Year's resolutions.

• Writing to remember

  On the loss of love letters in a technological age.

• The vioLENT bear it away

  A call to the dark disciplines of Lent and reading Flannery O'Connor.

• Journey to grace

  Lessons from accepting the gift of a late pregnancy.

• Little sinners

  On educating children in the ways of grace.

• The book that changed my life

  A confession about the power of the written word.

• Mom guilt

  Surveying 26 years of marriage, parenting and wrestling with depression.

• Coming to terms

  Wrestling with the place of mental illness in the Christian life.

• Returning to the end

  Exploring the theme of grief in Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life.

• The imperfect body

  Wrestling with church as a single mother.

• The good life

  A call to creativity, grace and the correspondence of action and belief.

• The imperfect life

  On learning to open the windows again.

• Grace rains down

  A song to carry through times of crisis.

• Permission to slow down

  On the consequences of perpetual busyness.

• Fast food notion

  Confessions of a chronic fast eater.

• Undone

  Coming to terms with the responsibilities that don’t even make it on the to-do list.

• The most under-reported reality of urban America

  Reports of radical hospitality from Chicago and beyond.

• Ten things I experienced in 2012

  Reflections on changing, adapting and continuing forward.

• Dancing lessons

  On the hard-earned gift of graceful movement.

• Blood on the pew

  Remembering the day in March 2000 when Charles appeared.

• Time is on my side

  Cultivating the texture of life, recipe in hand.

• The tug of “yes” and “no”

  On the joys and challenges of being a caregiver.

• When need meets grace

  The long, hard journey out of people-pleasing.

• Celebrate in gratitude

  A tradition of remembering those who have touched our lives.

• Ten regrets, ten graces

  Things I didn’t accomplish in 2013. 

• The vision of trees

  Embracing all five senses in an autumn of the soul.

• Tree of forgiveness

  In consideration of the white pine.

• Tragedy of errors

  A shotgun separation, hidden deep in the past.