catapult magazine

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• Bombardment

  The emotional and spiritual education of gym class.

• Open arms

  Thoughts on the process of learning to touch and be touched.

• Top ten things I learned from my father-in-law about how to be a Christian for real

  A list honoring Vern Boerman, who passed away on December 21, 2006.

• A lonely planet

  A review of the film Notes On A Scandal directed by Richard Eyre.

• Acting as if

  On a mother's struggle to care for herself and her children in the wake of a Lenten suicide.

• Dogface

  Reflections on the character of a constant companion.

• Late night thoughts on food as sacrament

  On modeling Christ as a guest at the table.

• A post-apocalyptic blessing

  A review of The Road, a novel by Cormac McCarthy.

• Suffering and love

  Photographs from Mother Theresa’s Home for the Destitute and Dying serve as aids for remembering important lessons.

• Danyale’s wedding

  A story about a man, a woman, a ceremony and more.

• A thousand years

  An autumn evening prompts reflection on numbering our days.

• Loving enough

  A review of the film Away from Her by Sarah Polley.

• Lies and the impeccable word

  What the parable of the rich man and Lazarus can teach us about discerning lies.

• Remembering

  Holiday memories serve as reminders of the best gifts.

• Grant’s recommendations 11.16.07

  From Pieces of April and an album of 69 love songs by its music director to the dark alienation of Nick Cave and Grinderman.
  

• Shreds of hope

  The prayers, poems, verses and quotes that help form an understanding of hope.

• Kirstin’s recommendations 2.22.08

  Collage in the music of Liz Janes, the dissolution of racial prejudice in Monster’s Ball and cultural awareness in The Story of the Weeping Camel.

• The old dishrag

  On the rag that does the dirty work as a reminder of God’s love.

• Not a lap God

  On the images of God that meet us at various times in various places.

• Fame on film

  How a medium that is itself engulfed in fame has something to teach us about public people.

• For everything else

  A review of Pierre Salvadori’s film Priceless, an unconventional love story.

• Just relax

  A lesson from Gamaliel about human movements and God’s movement.

• An ordinary radical

  A review of Shane Claiborne’s book The Irresistible Revolution.

• A song in my home

  How making a first home can be a re-discovery of self.

• soft exhales

• The Halloween Bunny

  A tale of disillusionment, for better or worse.

• What I’ve learned from planning UnLearn Week

  The principles behind and origins of one institution's efforts to dismantle racism.

• Unequal embrace

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

• In the flesh

  On the Divine's experience of love from within a body.

• From Buster to Batman

  The blessings and curses of growing beyond imaginary friends.