catapult magazine

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• She heightened my awareness of the world

  Remembering a grandmother's legacy.

• Guerrilla gifting

  Learning to believe again, via the story of St. Nicholas.

• The myth of Santa: Fiction or lie?

  A parent's perspective on the man from the North Pole.

• Ten Jesus films you’ve never seen

  An eclectic selection from 1933 through 2008.

• Our stories

  Reflecting on the role of spiritual memoirs.

• Time well spent

  Three lists, some recommendations, and a few observations from my amazing month of books.

• Making friends with books

  The evolution of one writer’s reading, from remedial to formative.

• Suitcases, rubber ducks, game shows and superhuman padres

  A review of Home/Land by the Chicago-based Albany Park Theatre Project.

• We all like sheep

  How our kids pick up on the differences between hired hands and good shepherds.

• We’re not in Kansas anymore

  Do the Bible’s agricultural metaphors translate to today’s North American society?

• Which good life?

  Following the trail of a neighbors death into the dense thicket of defining a life well-lived.

• Working to be loved

  Listening to Future of Forestry with C.S. Lewis and John Donne.

• Glad to be “Unwritten”

  How a song became a partner in a changed perspective on life.

• The art of coffee and questions

  On the special blend on offer in a small town Iowa coffee shop.

• Beer and the map of Chicago

  Belonging to a place and its beverages.

• Fast food and forgetfulness

  Can our eating habits really induce us to forget God?

• Reading vs. Alton City

  Comparing perceptions of a struggling hometown shared with John Updike.

• I never imagined

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

• Where did catapult come from?

  Remembering the origins of the magazine after ten years of publishing.

• People who deliver

  Memories from a file thick with newspaper clippings.

• Reading the newspaper

  A case for committing to information we can touch.

• Yes, I still take the daily paper

  A personal history told through the lens of newspapers.

• Home sale

  Head to head crypt, comes with a deed & your own lettering.

• How to sell a house

  For sale by owner.  Call for appointment.

• Ten books, past and present

  Short reviews of C.S. Lewis, Chesterton, Wodehouse and more.

• Near ... far!

  Ten reasons to support *cino from wherever you are.

• The weight of history

  Looking back at small town family origins in Ohio.

• The language of imagination

  Examining the double-edged sword of imagination.

• Book

  An imaginative profile of a complex character.

• Progress defamed

  On art’s capacity to illuminate the stories we tell about ourselves and the myths of progress.