catapult magazine

Items tagged violence

• Pro-life focus too narrow

  Attending the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., as a chaperone raised more questions than it answered about the traditional Pro-Life movement.

• This rose grows from concrete

  Examining the roots of hip hop shows how far it has come.

• Now what?

  Regardless of your perspective on the controversial filmmaker, Michael Moore?s Bowling for Columbine leaves important questions unanswered.

• Wrong on rights

  A sobering quiz demonstrates how, even in an increasingly connected world, keeping up with human rights abuses is difficult at best.

• Building a just house

  Should efforts toward the right to read what we want be eclipsed by efforts to ensure basic human dignity for our brothers and sisters around the world?

• Moving toward pacifism

  On the struggle to discover a biblical approach to war and peace.

• Responding to violence

  Michael Ondaatje's novel, Anil's Ghost, addresses hopeless violence but doesn't offer any answers.

• Sport as it should be

  JustPlay uses statistics as a tool for making youth sports fun again.

• Bound by shame

  On the ability of the gospel?s messengers to bring healing to those who suffer from memories of sexual abuse.

• Spiritual violence and hate crimes

  How preserving heterosexual privilege in the name of Christ defies the Gospel.

• On the edge of the world

  Indigenous farmers from Mexico offer opportunities to make the connection between righteousness and justice.

• Whom shall I fear?

  On the difference between being afraid and having fear.

• Peacemaking, terrorism and art

  An artist wonders out loud about the link between victims and perpetrators.

• An ordinary hero

  A review of Hotel Rwanda.

• A grim poem

  A review of the 1974 film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

• Do as I say, not as I do

  A review of This Film is Not Yet Rated, a documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America.

• Storytelling

  Thoughts from a writing teacher and father-to-be.

• An ordinary day

  A review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, a film depicting a high school shooting that is alternately sensitive and detached.

• Eating violence

  Exploring the troubling origins of our identities as creatures who are what we eat.

• No rest, no peace in The Wire

  On the broader implications of the upside down world in David Simon’s Baltimore.

• Piles of ideas

  Experiences and conversations converge on questions of keeping.

• A glimpse overseas

  A report on race relations in Russia.

• High school drama

  A review of the teen noir film Brick.

• Kirstin’s recommendations 12.19.08

  Two historically-rooted fictions-a film about arms dealing and a novel about a Sudanese refugee-explore the lives of outsiders.

• To hell with Romans 13

  A sermon on one of the most commonly misused passages in canonized Scripture.

• Love breaks through

  An administrative assistant in an oncology clinic reflects on the system's approach to shalom.

• Why I am still listening to Sufjan Stevens

  Confessions of a music lover who can't get enough of the enigmatic singer songwriter's juxtapositions.

• A recall for arms

  A review of Armageddon in Retrospecti, Kurt Vonnegut's posthumously published collection of short stories and other bits.

• Hung up

  Should Christians care more than they do about the issue of nuclear weapons?

• The presence of the past

  On how war imposes its memory long after the ceasefire.