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Good Government
November is coming and, while it’s not a big, big year in U.S. elections, it’s still voting season. And perhaps an off year for a big election is a better time to think critically about what good government looks like for the common good. Who’s getting it right?
Outsider
At some point in our development, we become aware that there are insiders and outsiders when it comes to various social contexts -- politics to playgrounds, workplaces to Sunday school. How we respond to this awareness varies greatly from one person to another. Where do you stand?
Teaching Well
From pre-schoolers through tenured professors, folks in the northern hemisphere have settled into the routines of the academic year. For many, this rhythm eventually ends, but for teachers it can last for decades. Who stands out in your story as an excellent teacher? How are you trying to be a good educator, vocationally or otherwise?
Going Local
If you think of all of the businesses, organizations and public spaces within a ten-minute walk of your house, what's there? What's missing? Could you survive on the resources within that radius? On local economies and all of the ways we do -- and don't -- support them.
Let's Get Together 9
Celebrating nine years of publishing catapult magazine with our annual issue on the gift of community.
Come Out and Play
The older we get, the less time we tend to devote to the pleasure of play. It's a developmental pattern, but it tends to go too far, to the extent that we can't remember how to play, or why we should. What is the good purpose of play in the lives of everyone from infants to senior citizens? Played any good games lately?
My Generation
When The Who sang about their generation, it was in the midst of a major cultural shift, though the sense of tension between the young and the old(er) was nothing new. Who is your generation? Do you feel a sense of solidarity or alienation there?
Resurrection Education II
Schools, Christian and otherwise, have taken on a certain status quo form in much of the world, but many are choosing to forego the standard route for all kinds of reasons. If the resurrection story has the power to shape everything we do, how does it shape the education of ourselves and our children? Reflections on college education.
Resurrection Education I
Schools, Christian and otherwise, have taken on a certain status quo form in much of the world, but many are choosing to forego the standard route for all kinds of reasons. If the resurrection story has the power to shape everything we do, how does it shape the education of ourselves and our children? Reflections on pre-college education.
Staying In
In some parts of the world, the gray and cold of winter inspires a need to escape emotionally, physically and otherwise. What does it look like to stick it out through all seasons and to stick it out well? In what ways is winter nourishing and necessary?
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