catapult magazine

vol. 12, num. 23 :: 2013.12.13 — 2013.12.26

Stories, art, traditions, transitions, family, friends, enemies -- many things in our lives provoke strong feelings, for better or worse. What’s good and what’s complicated about being creatures who experience emotions?

Feature

Emotional wreck

by Tamara Murphy

Your kids were supposed to have perfect parents. You were supposed to have perfect kids. You’re all plain out of luck.

Editorial

What’s wrong?

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A complicated history of tears.

Articles

Logic? I’ll take football.

by Jim Schmotzer

Why I keep the season tickets.

Deep acting in the checkout line

by MaryAnn McKibben Dana

What happens when we routinely swallow negative emotions?

Finding God in the silence

by Karissa Knox Sorrell

Meeting the Spirit again after a tragedy.

Why I Sundance

by Eric Kuiper

Hint: it’s about more than just stalking celebrities (with a little of that, too).

Gallery

Come, let us die

by Uma Gowrishankar

The Filigreed Heart

by Sami Wilson

In case you missed it the first time

Late night thoughts on grieving as a process

by Reverend Lawrence W. Farris

An exploration of the nature of loss.

Understanding emotional sickness

by Brenda Kronemeijer-Heyink

A window into the mental lanscape of the emotionally unwell.

The shame for which I weep

by Sylvia Keesmaat

When churches fail to offer acceptance and healing for gay and lesbian believers.

Weaving the web

Trumpet

A Beautiful Trench It Was

Sam Van Eman shares a story of being moved by music as a 12-year-old.

I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself

Killing the Buddha

Laurel Snyder on the reasons we lie to our kids about Santa.

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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