catapult magazine

Items tagged human

• Driving me nuts

  To the question of what Jesus would drive we can add, ?How would Jesus drive??

• Judge your neighbor as yourself?

  On the difference between a mallet and a meow as instruments of judgment.

• The nature of humanity

  Werner Herzog?s documentary Grizzly Man turns a man who wants to turn into a bear into a tragic hero instead.

• Late night thoughts on incarnation

  What does it mean to be fully human?

• Angels don't kiss

  Claiming what distinguishes us from angels may involve reclaiming the "holy kiss."

• Born in a barn

  A review of Debbie Blue's collection of sermons titled Sensual Orthdoxy.

• The Thing

  Confessions of a chronic dabbler.

• The spirit in rock music

  Pop and folk have their places, to be sure, but there's something different going on in rock 'n roll.

• E! True Hollywood Stories: Extreme Philosophical Edition

  An exploration of the ideas underlying our starry-eyed obsessions.

• Rock Star Fever

  A proposed cure to a very attractive disease.

• Tale of two children

  What folk tales and the biblical narrative have to offer about the process of growing up.

• In[finite]security

  What a kindergartener's fashion sense reveals about the mystery of God.

• Confessions of a techno-literary Luddite

  The question of whether Google is making us "stoopid" may only begin to assess what we stand to lose.

• The birth of the universe is not the cause of the world

  Concerning another kind of birth story: creation.

• Breaking through

  On the terrible, wonderful mystery of entering the world.

• Global Spirit

  Ten world music albums that inspire wonder at the range of human creativity.

• Roxxxy the Sex Robot

  How what we believe shapes what we make and what we make shapes what we believe.

• Shopping for love

  A cautionary tale from a renegade registering spree.

• Restoring the connection

  A reflection on Psalm 22 and communication technology.

• Do FarmVillains dream of analog sheep?

  On the challenges of staying awake in a digital world.

• A palace in time

  A review of
The Sabbath World:
Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz.

• The lie of perfection

  On giving politicians permission to tell the truth.

• How do you solve a problem like Jesus?

  An account of the journey through childlike faith to a matured understanding of Christ's divinity and humanity.

• Insider outed

  On the secrets we all keep.

• Popcorn and prophets

  Gathering around a screen toward repentance and lament.

• The hopes and fears of all the years

  Reflecting on the films Melancholia and Another Earth as Christmas approaches.

• The tail wind taboo

  Love covers a multitude of sins, if we let it.

• The human and the holy

  Reflecting on cultural definitions of efficiency and inefficiency.

• Why I am a Dolly Parton feminist

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

• Animal instinct

  A retrospective journaling of recent encounters with creatures.