catapult magazine

Items tagged Sorrow

• Paradox and the Fall

  Since the Fall, God uses our weaknesses to build community and helps us gain a sense of Eden's bliss.

• The gift of laughter

  Is laughter even appropriate in a world with so much suffering?

• The case for the quotidian

  On the value of the life?s mundane experiences.

• Tenebrae and the enactment of faith

  Rituals of Passion Week, discovered over a lifetime, can remind us of who we are, who Christ is.

• The velveteen bear

  A childhood gift becomes a constant companion.

• East Side Gallery, Berlin (detail)

• Four old nags from Moody

  On witnessing a legacy of friendship, sorrow and laughter.

• Round and round

  A meditation on receiving with the original intention of giving.

• Ashes, ashes

  Good news delivered from a dark pulpit on a Wednesday: dead is alive.

• Crying he makes

  A call to embrace both joy and sorrow as we remember the birth of Immanuel.

• Returning to the end

  Exploring the theme of grief in Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life.

• A time to lament

  The back story and a liturgy for a series of services of lament held by Peace Christian Reformed Church in South Holland, Illinois.