catapult magazine

Items tagged religion

• Gentle radicalism

  Despite several flaws in reasoning, Roaring Lambs provides a compelling argument for Christians to transform culture.

• Liberty or national interests?

  The annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom exposes inconsistencies in U.S. foreign human rights policy.

• <I>The Next Christendom</I> is here

  Philip Jenkins? compelling book explores current and future trends in Christian growth as the world?s largest religion moves South and East.

• A foot in both camps

  Some personal observations from a Lutheran adopted by a pretty cool bunch of Reformed folk.

• Spelling bees, kleptomania, Hare Krishna, and listening for the words of God

  Myla Goldberg's Bee Season defies a trend to invalidate the search for God by exploring the lives of family members immersed in that search.

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  Find out what world leaders have determined to be reasonable expectations for citizens of this world.

• Nature walk on concrete

  A meditation on our character as beings who are part of, not separate from, creation.

• Creation and Christianity

  A review of The Reenchantment of Nature: The Denial of Religion and the Ecological Crisis by Alister McGrath.

• Far-fetched truth

  A review of Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• Death by ice or fire

  Life is a complicated game of Would You Rather? for a those who find pieces of home in two very different worlds.

• Claiming our history in Lent

  Is fear of militant Islam related to a fear of our own collective Christian past?

• The India journals

  Seeking questions and answers in another culture leads back home.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• The end of the tunnel

  A photo essay about an art installation at the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

• Holy commitment

  Travels in Tibet reveal some of the lessons that the practice of Buddhism can teach Christians.

• Art, faith and Warhol

  A session on the art of Andy Warhol, with an introduction by Dayton Castleman.

• Good News to the poor

  A trip to India inspires reflection on the nature of Christian evangelism and mission to the poor.

• Legalization

  On the cultural assumptions about marijuana and other substances, along with a discussion of their use in religious observance.

• The Covenant Dutch

  An art installation reflects on ethnic and religious identity.

• White

  An attempt to embrace a subject that produces more questions than answers.