catapult magazine

Items tagged family

• Piled up

  How our housekeeping tendencies can shape our identities in relation to others.

• Dorm daze in the animal house

  On the unique lifestyle of a family that lives in the dorms.

• Feels like home

  How art became a way to feel at home in many different homes.

• The Overflow Room

  The room in the corner becomes a multi-faceted symbol.

• Cleanliness is adjacent to godliness

  On finding God in the dish water, vacuum cleaner and toilet.

• Painting the Incarnation

  On the incarnation of ideas into art in Chaim Potok’s acclaimed novel, My Name is Asher Lev.
  

• The tide of trash

  On what happens when conflicting ideas take walks around the same neighborhood.

• Philosophy in the family

  A book review of Gum, Geckos and God: A Family's Adventure in Space, Time and Faith by James S. Spiegel.

• Fame on film

  How a medium that is itself engulfed in fame has something to teach us about public people.

• A self in comparison

  Reflections on ambition, identity, fame, fortune and family.

• Surviving your baby’s first year

  A book list by the mother of a toddler explores experiences from birthing to sleeping.

• Grace-pitality

  A rambling vacation yields delight, generosity and gratitude.

• The church proper

  How the variety of buildings in which we worship reflect larger tensions and ideas, particularly for multi-generation families.
  

• Let us build a house

  A renovation project sparks ideas about the interplay of images and values embodied in bricks and mortar.

• Considering contraception

  A response to catapult’s “Family Planning” issue.

• When changing your mind goes public

  An interview with Bethany Torode about her seven-year journey since publicly advocating for Natural Family Planning at nineteen years old.

• Conversion as process

  Looking back reveals a series of small, significant revelations.

• Becoming a Matriarch

  On the paradox of aspirations within a family.

• Growing up hopeful

  A unique community combines generations who need one another.

• Femininity and the Big-Boned Gal

  Reflecting on identity via a mother's larger-than-life mythology.

• The freedom, the pain and the just desserts of nerdiness

  Middle school lessons, for better or worse, become life lessons.

• (Partly) rebelling against rebellion

  Reflections of a pastor's kid on struggling against expectations.

• Ten ways to make your house more hospitable

  A list about hosting guests that could double as advice for how to live one's life.

• Community doesn’t just happen

  A group interview exploring the thoughts and ideas that fill the rooms of a big old house in Grand Rapids along with five adults and an infant.

• A cage of my own

  On finding comfort in familiarity, even in unfamiliar places.

• Thanks, Mom

  Confronting the inner child as an adult living in mom and dad's home.

• Things in nature that make me believe in God

  Lessons from cohabiting with animals within the house of creation.

• At home on a day in June

  Reflections of a daughter who may never leave the nest.

• Imperial cohabitation

  An evaluation of the messages that limit our household vision.

• Lights and darks

  A single mother living with her parents puts a few thoughts on the proverbial clothesline for examination.