catapult magazine

Items tagged story

• Ten things we imagine at Huss School

  Modest proposals for the future life of 22,000 square feet and four acres.

• A better story

  Is the devil really in the details?

• Pre-guilt and the suffering Herod

  A narrative glimpse into the historic mind of a regretful king.

• Do not enter

  On following Jesus into forbidden territory.

• Verdict and revelation will always be popular

  A tour of timeless themes that pop up in the most unpredictable places.

• The end

  Welcome to the longest reality show ever.

• Recovering an ancient vision for popular culture

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

• Popularity contest

  Examining the notion of popular culture in a segregated society.

• Planning and scanning with the idea of home

  Pondering gift registry in the final stages of planning a wedding.

• Encounter

  The Cadillac was driving too fast down the subdivision street.

• Preaching as storytelling

  Good news for those who have never been able to "get anything out of" the Bible.

• Getting real

  A retrospective toward authenticity in the pulpit.

• The curtain is torn, the closet is open

  An interview with playwright and director Richard Peters on his latest work, David and Jonathan.

• Getting naked

  A blogger reflects on the interaction between vulnerability and friendship.

• There is more than one version of this

  A crime reporter's perspective on nothing but the truth.

• Fact vs. truth

  A childhood of gathering evidence gives way to an adulthood of storytelling.

• Truth without borders

  An interview with John Van Sloten, author of The Day Metallica Came to Church.

• Scott

  An uneasy legacy tied together with the thread of a shared name.

• Ten favorite “goodbyes”...and good buys!

  A whimsical romp through the past and into the present.

• A kindled imagination

  How a book loyalist came to appreciate the company of an e-reader.

• Writing to remember

  On the loss of love letters in a technological age.

• Tesser well

  Lessons from a writer, to a writer, transcend the boundaries of time and space.

• Crying out

  An apologetic for the imaginative power of books over movies.

• My childhood friends

  A mom looks back on her favorite books and ahead to her own daughter's young reading years.

• The vioLENT bear it away

  A call to the dark disciplines of Lent and reading Flannery O'Connor.

• The Fourposter

  Weaving the story of four decades of gratitude and glory.

• A tale of three or four teachers

  Learning from the ancestral line about intuition vs. skill in teaching.

• Returning to the end

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

• The electric razor

  Unearthing childhood memories of fear and separation.

• Sense memory

  A partial history told in sight, sound, taste and touch.