catapult magazine

vol. 9, num. 4 :: 2010.02.19 — 2010.03.04

Those of us who are particularly susceptible to guilt’s maddening power resent those who are impervious—and then promptly feel badly about it. Some use it as a weapon, while some contend it’s ultimately useless. Is guilt always bad? What happens when we experience too much or too little of it?

Feature

Finding fact in fiction

by John Scherer

On trying to live out a costly vision after college.

Editorial

Put your whole self in

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Why confessing our pop culture secrets can be good for us.

Articles

What a friend we have in guilt

by Amanda Cleary Eastep

On falling in with the wrong crowd after a misstep.

Pre-guilt and the suffering Herod

by Sam Van Eman

A narrative glimpse into the historic mind of a regretful king.

Gallery

What is...Moderation

by Raymond Blanton

In case you missed it the first time

At war with shame

by Jeremy Huggins

On using politeness to distance ourselves.

The fellowship of the guilty

by Stephen Mitchell

?By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin and so death passed upon all men.?

Goodbye

by John Mundy

A eulogy for Ferrari Mundy (Winter 1989-Summer 2007).

Weaving the web

Nothing But a Party

Killing the Buddha

Andrew Morantz writes about New Orleans during Lent: the universe’s biggest buzzkill.

Guilt—one of many voices

Geez Magazine

Gene Stoltzfus on how refusing to give guilt primacy led him through service in Vietnam to form the Christian Peacemaker Teams.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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