catapult magazine

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• Don’t rock the boat, baby

  A critique from the heartland of niceness.

• Real relationships

  What exactly goes on inside the bonds of couplehood?

• The people that we meet

  Expanding expectations in the places where we live.

• Luke’s journal

  A short fiction piece about life in the wrong body.

• The shame for which I weep

  When churches fail to offer acceptance and healing for gay and lesbian believers.

• The imperfect life

  On learning to open the windows again.

• Love seat

  The significance of stuff in our daily liturgies.

• Working to be loved

  Listening to Future of Forestry with C.S. Lewis and John Donne.

• For everything there is a season

  On discerning when to practice efficiency and inefficiency.

• Home tour

  Reflecting on glimpses of community during a three-week journey.

• As one voice

  Remembering the joys and challenges of a small town ritual.

• Ten things I wish I knew 11 years ago

  Or: Sarah’s marriage advice.

• Sowing seeds of love and forgiveness

  What a good dose of imagination looks like on the ground in Three Rivers, Michigan.

• Finding real life on The Loneliest Planet

  A review of Julia Loktev’s 2012 film about the journey of an engaged couple.

• Animal instinct

  A retrospective journaling of recent encounters with creatures.

• Facts and fictions

  On following the breadcrumbs of truth through the stories of childhood.

• Ode to my bike

  A love letter to a perfect partner for exploring the streets of Amsterdam.

• Humans being

  Life lessons from a friend newly retired.

• Body image

  A woman walks into a bar, wondering, “What are bodies for?”

• A new normal

  Ten things I’ve learned about trauma.

• The eyes of the beholders

  On seeing and being seen by an omnipresence.

• (Dis)comfort food

  Remembering a mother’s edible expressions of love.

• Back at the easel

  Pondering the predictability of artistic inspiration.

• Gossip column

  The value of local news as a lens for seeing the world.

• Staging hurt and hope

  Albany Park Theater Project’s God’s Work shows us the kind of world we live in.

• Patchwork prayer

  On making quilts as gifts for children.

• The work of hands

  Considering created things and the names of those who made them.

• Tragedy of errors

  A shotgun separation, hidden deep in the past.