catapult magazine

Items tagged work

• The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker

  A morning in downtown South Holland, Illinois, raises questions of fair trade and local businesses.

• <I>About Schmidt</I>--about us?

  New movie is darkly comical in its approach to some of life's major questions.

• A season of acceptance

  As Christmas approaches, we can prepare to accept God's good gifts by setting aside our own efforts and becoming like little children.

• Faithful in business

  People in a broad range of professions answer questions about how their faith directs their day-to-day work activities, helps them face unique challenges, and affects their workplace relationships.

• <b>*cino</b> needs a nap

  Why we?re saying ?good night? until September.

• Rest a while

  Christ's model in his interaction with the disciples offers a model for us as creatures of work and rest.

• Sabbath: Cultivating a God-conscious Life

  As creatures created to observe Sabbath, can we deny its integral role in our lives? An exploration of biblical and practical Sabbath.

• The spirit of capitalism

  Capitalism operates well in the modern world on the basis of certain assumptions, but are these assumptions biblical?

• Work

  Reflections on the nature of our daily labor activities.

• Summer at the CLAC

  A student gains practical experience in turning Christian social principles into action.

• Forty hours of purpose

  Is there a secret to identifying your true vocation? Perhaps it starts with asking the right questions.

• A working worldview

  Students promote solidarity in the quest for Christian cultural engagement.

• St. Gregory's Abbey and Benedictine monasticism

  An exploration of monastic values and practices and how the monastic life can inform the lives of those outside of the monastery.

• The inevitable question

  The topic of our mysterious finances demands curiosity from others and honesty from myself.

• Dignity through work

  Is fair trade a solution that political polar opposites can agree on?

• Unforeseen effects

  Working as a temp provides rest and opportunity to reflect on the nature of work.

• Job stories

  Members and friends share stories and ideas relating to their work experience.

• Loving/work

  The 9-year-old Empire Records provides something worth emulating.

• Time is my enemy

  On the difficulty of internalizing the gift of a twenty-four hour day

• Peak oil "to do" list

  Why we should do these things anyway.

• Willie

  Encounters with a neighbor in need raise questions of how to adequately meet the need.

• Rumgumption

  A story of family, of wisdom and of home.

• The metamorphosis

  Is the starry-eyed optimism of the engaged a mere illusion?

• The beloved community

  A social work student wrestles with the relationship between activism and redemption.

• What are you wearing?

  A meditation on the "uniforms" we choose for different situations.

• Leaving home to go home

  A story of certainty and doubt on the path toward God.

• Shaping the culture that shapes you

  An interactive session on what it means to serve Christ through business.

• Shifting my weight

  An evangelical expatriate considers what led to her most recent major life change.

• Coffee community

  On the connection between feeling at home in a place and finding a good place for coffee.

• Get out of the mosh pit

  A personal story and an overview of principles for life balance.