catapult magazine

Items tagged identity

• Femininity and the Big-Boned Gal

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

• Unequal embrace

  Contextualizing a healthy sense of gender identity within a hierarchy of privilege.

• The mouse that roared

  A sixth grade boy stumbles upon mystique on the middle school stage.

• Finding my feminine

  Seeking good questions and good answers on a personal journey toward feminism.

• An essay unwritten

  On receiving a call for submissions for the "Women's Worlds" issue of catapult magazine.

• To be two

  A fantastic tale about losing--and finding--one's voice.

• Incarnational Meditation Exercises 1-3

  Preparing for the Christmas celebration during Advent by touching, visiting and living.

• (Partly) rebelling against rebellion

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

• In[finite]security

  What a kindergartener's fashion sense reveals about the mystery of God.

• Outside looking in

  Remembering Simone Weil and a middle school band of misfits.

• Conversation: “Duck, Duck, Goose”

  Your opportunity to be a part of the conversation about (not) fitting in.

• Ten things for teaching

  A moment of reflection before heading into a whirlwind of a term.

• Why I am not a fundamentalist

  A list related to a current thread within Christianity.

• Lights and darks

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

• To hell with Romans 13

  A sermon on one of the most commonly misused passages in canonized Scripture.

• A Love whose name cannot be spoken

  An analysis of pop culture artifacts to expose myths about true love.

• Love in the time of softball

  Creative jock or an athletic artist?  A reflection on a time of making decisions about love.

• Thanks for love

  On discovering that perfectly imperfect someone.

• Crashing Waves

  A long illness and healing process shifts relationships and conceptions of self.

• Ashes to...top three student?

  Mixing metaphors on a holiday of metaphors in a class on...metaphors.

• Be still and know

  On the value of showing up for a time of silence.

• When the Word became that figure in the mirror

  An adult wrestles with youthful images of identity.

• Standing alone

  A review of the 1974 young adult novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.

• Music is mnemonic

  On the capacity of song to embody our memories.

• Coming to consciousness

  How adults and children can walk together on the journey toward discovering grace and self.

• No un-growth

  On the power of formative experience to set growth in motion.

• The piles behind the screen

  How the marriage of simplicity and stashing survives under the same roof.

• The home of the person

  Reclaiming aloneness from the stigma of punishment.

• Got plans?

  Reflections at the intersection of various cultural expectations about marriage and singleness.

• My cloud of witnesses

  How to show hospitality in a virtual room of diverse people.