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Authority
In some areas of our lives, we are the ones calling the shots, while in others, there’s an authority outside ourselves that requires our obedience. How do we know when to obey authority and when to subvert it? How do lofty goals such as justice and faithfulness related to our passionate feelings in the moment?
All Creatures
The relationship between humans and animals takes a dizzying array of forms, provoking everything from impassioned principles to mystical tales. Some die for our food, while others sleep at the foot of our beds every night. This issue is a collection of stories, confessions and questions exploring our complex connections with animals.
Dance!
Because dancing is what we should do, not only with our feet but also our thoughts, this topic is open to all sorts of perspectives on the meaning of dance and movement. catapult magazine invites creative and whimsical reflections on the body in motion.
The Oil in Our Veins
On March 30, 2013, the Hermitage Community, a contemplative retreat center in Three Rivers, Michigan, held a service of confession, lament and hope in preparation for the construction of a new Enbridge crude oil pipeline that will cut through the center on its way from Canada to a refinery in Indiana. Another service took place the same day on a section of the pipeline in Manitoba. This issue contains some of the material that was presented at the Hermitage service, as well as reflections inspired by it.
Imagining Imagination 2
Imagination enables us to transform our current reality and empowers the passion to question the status quo. Increasingly, however, it seems that we are living in a world that commodifies imagination. We look to figures like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney as idolized imaginers, yet forget those path-blazing dissenters who yearn for justice, beauty and hospitality in our very neighborhoods. This week's topic focuses on re-claiming imagination through our everyday actions.
Imagining Imagination
Imagination enables us to transform our current reality and empowers the passion to question the status quo. Increasingly, however, it seems that we are living in a world that commodifies imagination. We look to figures like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney as idolized imaginers, yet forget those path-blazing dissenters who yearn for justice, beauty and hospitality in our very neighborhoods. This week's topic focuses on re-claiming imagination through our everyday actions.
The State I'm In
...Or province or county: whatever term we use to describe our geographical area, the boundaries that surround us shape us. And in fact, we attempt to define each other by geography: someone from Maryland is assumed to have a different character than someone from Alberta. Whether the state we grew up in, or the state that we've chosen, how do these places define us?
(In)Efficiency 2
The Industrial Revolution may have given us a gazillion useful objects, but it also radically re-shaped our expectations about human purpose and the use of time. When has efficiency improved your life in a meaningful way? When has inefficiency been the better way?
First World Problems
Whether the term is used to put things in perspective or to ironically dismiss the luxuries of privilege, the notion of “first world problems” calls to attention the great economic and cultural differences that exist in our diverse, complex world. How should we approach the problems of our world, whether first, second, third or otherwise?
Let’s Get Together 10
Celebrating ten years of publishing catapult magazine with our annual issue on the gift of community.
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