catapult magazine

Items tagged place

• Do not enter

  On following Jesus into forbidden territory.

• Recovering an ancient vision for popular culture

  A review of Journey to the Common Good by Walter Brueggemann.

• Home to stay

  A reflection on practicing a domestic liturgy.

• Home is (not always) where the heart is

  A mother reflects on her family's longing for a better home.

• Learning the rhythms of the New Creation

  An Easter reflection on growing together in our church communities.

• The Saxifrage School

  A vision for redesigning college as education for whole people.

• Reframing brain drain

  Broadening the scope of "higher" education to value folkways.

• Something to give

  Culture Make Sale connects the world to Three Rivers, Michigan.

• Fare thee well

  Words of advice for a friend who’s getting a new start in a different place.

• Hope at the margins

  Loving marginalized places enough to unearth their gifts and share their burdens.

• Outside in

  Moving from transplanted strangers to homemaking exiles.

• The time that is left to us

  In the shadow of winter, a reflection on where we belong.

• More

  On making changes to live closer to our place on a smaller version of “enough.”

• The people that we meet

  Expanding expectations in the places where we live.

• A messy life

  What happens when the mess in the house becomes a metaphor for the mess in other parts of life?

• Glimpses of the good life

  Reflecting on formational sights along the twenty-something leg of life’s journey.

• Beer and the map of Chicago

  Belonging to a place and its beverages.

• The tasting room

  Savoring the memory of unexpected hospitality.

• All who enter here

  Unearthing the memories of love and loss contained in the family cabin.

• Seeing our seeing

  A case for a shift in how believers perceive their home.

• Places, spaces and landscapes of home

  Wrestling with belonging between the lure of two continents.

• I never imagined

  Oh, the places we have been and the things we have done...

• Imagining rain

  Preparing for the third annual Huss Future Festival in the middle of a record-breaking drought.

• After the garden

  Considering the ripple effects of a formative move in elementary school.

• Connoisseurship and the art of moving

  What questions should we be asking of a potential new place ... and perhaps of ourselves?

• Pizza Friday

  How a simple ritual became a centering necessity across 15 years and places.

• In the meantime

  A reflection on the longing for community in a new place.

• As if eternity were real

  Lessons in (in)efficiency from work at a retreat center.

• Birth announcements

  On the incarnate words that call our worlds into being.

• Growing apart, together

  What we leave behind when we cross state lines.