catapult magazine

vol. 4, num. 16 :: 2005.09.09 — 2005.09.22

Inaugurating the fourth year of catapult magazine issues with another focus on community. What does true community look like and how do we participate in its cultivation?

Feature

Celebrating unity and difference

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma and Larry Edward Kamphausen

An interview with Larry Edward Kamphausen, member of the Community of the Holy Trinity and pastor at the Church of Jesus Christ, Reconciler in Chicago.

Editorial

Naming the space

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A hand-me-down table was just the beginning?

Articles

A room in God?s house

by Dayton Castleman

A collection of impressions of what happened when a Philadelphia Presbyterian church opened its doors to an artists-in-residence program.

More of myself

by Amy Carpenter Leugs

Reflection on experiences that flow between the community and the self.

Fleeing community

by David Howard Malone

For reasons of bad theology to bad taste, sometimes it?s easier to flee than fight.

The beloved community

by Abby Jansen

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

Reviews

Kanye for Christians

by Grant Elgersma

Rap artist Kanye West brings a bold mission to America?s dance clubs and radios.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Radical gathering

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

On the relevance of community to September 11

Growing and living in Christian community

by Grant Elgersma

A conversation with Jon Trott from Jesus People USA.

What a Wonderful World

by Christopher Nonhof

A coffeehouse in Sheboygan, Wisconsin serves locals with more than just delicious treats.

Weaving the web

The Hermitage Community

A rural retreat center in southwest Michigan committed to ?creating an environment of attentiveness to God? through individual and group retreats and services open to the surrounding community.

The Veterans of Hope Project is a multifaceted educational initiative on religion, culture and participatory democracy. We encourage a healing-centered approach to community-building that recognizes the interconnectedness of spirit, creativity and citizen

A future of peace

Taiz? Community

A 2005 letter from the recently deceased Brother Roger, founder of the ecumenical Taiz? community in southern France.

Columns

The inexpert practitioners

by Steve Lansingh

On the local congregation?s alternative to a resident best-selling spirituality author.

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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