catapult magazine

Learning to belong

by Bradley Bird

Considering what it means to feel at home as a child of traveling parents.

Daring to belong

by Barbara Lee

A reflection on the community of Acts and accepting the invitation.

No one outside

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Considering the complicated relationship between identity and belonging.

A different kind of mom

by Heather Hutchison

The quest to belong as a mother of special needs children.

Membership

by Carol Brennan King

Should the Church have requirements to belong?

The language of belonging

by Charity Singleton Craig

Encountering barriers on a much-anticipated trip to China.

Caught in the middle

by Jim Schmotzer

Considering the differences between a mother’s and a father’s legacy of belonging.

Redeeming the Sound of My Faith

by Sherry Boykin

Synchronicity

by Uma Gowrishankar

Gone south

by David Howard Malone

A Midwesterner in Tennessee reflects on alienation and belonging.

Suspicious skin

by Erin O'Connor Garcia

First hand experience with Alabama’s new immigration law.

There is no such thing as half

Killing the Buddha

Joanna Brooks on what comes out when a Mormon and a Jew raise a kid.

My name means “skillful”

Curator Magazine

Praveen Sethupathy on conversion, naming and identity.

Caught in the middle

The Christian Century

Wendell Berry on how we've evolved into a culture of wishful thinking, "oversimplified and absolute, requiring no knowledge and no thought, no loss, no tragedy, no strenuous effort, no bewilderment, no hard choices."