catapult magazine

Items tagged family

• Small church, big church

  Questions from the present on a path that has run through churches of all sizes.

• Aftershocks

  Reflecting on work in Haiti after the earthquake.

• Planting trees

  An interview with Nicole Carlin about her family's work in Haiti.

• Freely given

  Thoughts on the question of (not) registering for gifts.

• First, the wedding

  On planning the ceremony after 50, with kids, in the midst of the stuff of life.

• The presence of the past

  On how war imposes its memory long after the ceasefire.

• Wedding photos (l-r): Joy, Pain, Forgiveness

  Snapshots from a second marriage ceremony, including what's outside the frame.

• Fuchsia, plum, navy or none

  The necessity of improvising on the path toward a second wedding.

• Bodily dysfunctions

  Is this really what Jesus had in mind?

• Know and be known

  How living in intentional community can lead to self-awareness.

• Eating together

  A review of Harriet Brown's memoir Brave Girl Eating: The Story of a Family's Struggle with Anorexia.

• An apology to the pig farmer’s son

  Looking back on the vulnerability and cruelty of grade school.

• An M&M and a prayer

  A review of the novel The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow by Joyce Magnin.

• He puts the lonely in families

  A meditation on the life and death of a friend who called upon others to care.

• Dave + Lenore

  Life, confession and memory in the endless moment of illness.

• Human homebodies

  On the hope of carving out a path that leads home.

• Scott

  An uneasy legacy tied together with the thread of a shared name.

• Living well

  On shaping a life that will honor the memory and the suffering of those who have gone before.

• Ten recipes

  A list of favorite foods, in no particular order.

• Do not disterb

  A family learns to trust the Spirit and stay inside -- until it's time.

• Sitting out Snowmageddon

  How a hotel became the perfect retreat from a literal and figurative snowstorm.

• Home is (not always) where the heart is

  A mother reflects on her family's longing for a better home.

• In the long winter’s wait

  On surviving life's seasons of in-between, uncertainty and stagnancy.

• Then who would I be?

  A daughter bears the marks of her parents, human and divine.

• With a spring in my step and a mop in my hand

  Of sanity and hospitality in a home that's dirty enough to be happy.

• A hand-me-down life

  How a young parent learned by example to trust providence.

• Journey to grace

  Lessons from accepting the gift of a late pregnancy.

• The extended family

  Getting involved with adoption and foster care.

• Upside down education

  Expressing gratitude for parents and teachers who re-imagined "success."

• Raising a generation of courage

  On accepting the challenge of parenting post-9/11 kids.