catapult magazine

Items tagged language

• Building Community

  What does the Bible say about our responsibility to build community?

• Sock feathers

  A child's approach to language can remind us to leave our pride behind when we seek the kingdom.

• Reflecting on the incarnation

  An exploration of the interplay among language, the body and the incarnation.

• Grace in recording

  A Christian musician with a professional recording studio wrestles with tough questions as he confronts lyrics and actions in his business dealings that he doesn?t necessarily approve of.

• Under my skin

  A period of service in Haiti leaves a language arts teacher transformed.

• Redeeming our shock words

  From the vulgar to the profane--is there such a thing as redemptive use of "four-letter words?"

• Top Ten re: vegetables

  A personal history told from the field, table, freezer, mouth and memory.

• Squeezing the grape, acidic urine and the intentional fallacy

  On how vocabulary fosters a sense of community.

• Universal language

  Pedro Almodóvar returns to an enduring fascination Volver.

• Sheer pride keeps alive Frisian, a cousin to English

  A particular European heritage exemplifies the relationship between identity and language.

• A four-letter word

  Overuse of the word community beckons us to rediscover its meaning.

• Interrupting God

  Two conversions become reflected in two different lexicons and perceptions of language.

• Creation and culture

  An artist explores her journey of expression and faith.

• Reconsidering empire

  A case against language that potentially undermines legitimate purposes.

• Reworking the recipe

  On seeking to address a sense of missing ingredients in inherited tradition.

• The pleasant results of a shrinking world

  A reflection on what's good about online social networking.

• High-risk pregnancy

  Christmas comes in July for Benita Gonzalez and the on-call chaplain.

• Ten ways to spot Americans in Australia

  Useful tips...from an American in Australia.

• The Gospel According to David Lynch

  A journey through an appropriately circuitous thought process on an elusive director.

• A kindled imagination

  How a book loyalist came to appreciate the company of an e-reader.

• The Saxifrage School

  A vision for redesigning college as education for whole people.

• The integration issue

  Is it possible to truly belong in a new culture?

• Slow organizing

  Considering what’s emerging for *cino after the spring thaw.

• One world friendships

  Exploring an alternative model to first world power dynamics.

• The human and the holy

  Reflecting on cultural definitions of efficiency and inefficiency.

• The language of imagination

  Examining the double-edged sword of imagination.

• Meditation on circular patterns

  Meditation on circular patterns

• “The Word became flesh,” and why Derrida can’t do a thing about it

  The marvel of the incarnation through the lens of grad school.

• Quitting my dream

  To Africa and back again.

• Tasting Thailand

  Food and home, from the southern U.S. to southeast Asia.