catapult magazine

Items tagged community

• A room in God?s house

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

• A room in God's house

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

• A room in God?s house

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

• A room in God?s house

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

• A room in God?s house

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

• A room in God?s house

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

• A room in God?s house

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

• A room in God?s house

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

• The inexpert practitioners

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

• The beloved community

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

• Another thing we ought to be doing

  A review of Hope Meadows by Wes Smith.

• Enjoying worship?

  On discovering a right attitude toward worship.

• A hallowed event

  Should Halloween be a time for sectarian arguments about evil or local unity around end of the harvest?

• Sunday morning cinema

  Guided by Rev. Netflix, a couple seeks something of what they weren?t finding in church in front of their television.

• Template <i>(Store for Future Use)</i>

  A letter for an as-yet unformed person, a letter imagined, and a letter that may never be sent.

• The price of postage

  Moving beyond legalistic environmentalism to attentive stewardship.

• Dear N.

  A written discussion about social intimacy.

• Idle chatter is the Lord's playground

  On listening as worship and as ministry.

• Words, words

  An inspirational institution ?closes shop? and makes room for another to step in.

• Grieving in community

  A review of Alison McGhee's Shadow Baby with a list of other books that have proved helpful after a loss.

• The case for the quotidian

  On the value of the life?s mundane experiences.

• Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be clueless

  On passing down skills in community.

• Locks and keys

  A meditation on key chains as a barometer of local and internal culture.

• New poems from an old friend

  A review of Wendell Berry's Given: New Poems.

• Problem? What problem?

  How can we move from despairing over the bad to cultivating the good?

• Mea Culpa

  On why Christians should be disturbed by the current war in Iraq and what we should all be doing about it, regardless of our opinion.

• A hidden self

  Reading the patterns of childhood in the adults we become.

• Who are <i>you</i>?

  A meditation on the complexity of describing our core selves in various kinds of company.

• Kissing and telling

  On what our own teen experiences can teach us about being adults in the lives of teen-agers.

• Himalayan idyll

  A meditation on the serious business of being a child.