catapult magazine

Items tagged silence

• Late-night thoughts on feasting and fasting

  Feasting and fasting as the yin and yang of Lent.

• Taking a deep breath

  Creating a home that is right respite for yourself and others.

• Top Ten re: sounds

  We often talk of seeing through another?s eyes, but here?s your chance to hear through another?s ears.

• Eight days of silence

  An account of a sabbatical retreat and an invitation to a firsthand experience.

• Recommendations

  In a new series, a *cino co-founder offers short reviews of worthwhile art and media, This edition looks at the films God Grew Tired of Us and Into Great Silence, music from Kanye West and Common, and Last Train to Memphis, a book about Elvis.

• Land of abundance

  Three Rivers, Michigan promises destinations for many kinds of pilgrims, including the reluctant ones.

• To be two

  A fantastic tale about losing--and finding--one's voice.

• Be still and know

  On the value of showing up for a time of silence.

• Staying behind

  On Spirit, truth and silence in the off-seasons of a college town.

• From “doing” to “communing”

  Recovering the practice of retreat in our lives and in our worship.

• Weighty friends

  Remembering friends whose presence brought a sense of rootedness, even in their diversity.

• Staying in to tend the fire

  Learning to stay present to God in each moment on the cusp of a lay monastic novitiate.

• Home to stay

  A reflection on practicing a domestic liturgy.

• Ears to hear

  Learning how to sense the love of God in each moment.

• The shame for which I weep

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

• Body parts

  Reclaiming rituals for whole personhood.

• Into the silence

  A pastor reckons with a retreat averted.

• Finding God in the silence

  Meeting the Spirit again after a tragedy.