catapult magazine

Items tagged judgment

• Grace in naming

  The story of the infertile wife, the virile husband and the lovely immigrant cleaning woman.

• Regarding judgment

  Are we necessarily caught between conviction and relativism?

• Judge your neighbor as yourself?

  On the difference between a mallet and a meow as instruments of judgment.

• Some friends and a house

  A review of Mirah TomYov Zeitlyn & Ginger Brooks Takahashi's Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project

• Redefining grace

  A review of The Woodsman.

• There are no heretics here

  Apparently, "truth is stranger than it used to be" in today's college classrooms.

• Late night thoughts on getting around while leaving a small footprint

  Is transportation a moral issue?

• Confessions of a recovering Pharisee

  A tee totaling re-convert discovers the nuances of Christian liberty.

• (Hyper)tension and energy

  A tension of thought reveals itself in physical symptoms.

• Forgiveness and responsibility

  Experiences with family and community reveal lessons about forgiveness and the ways in which we fight those lessons.

• Turpentine

  A foray into the heart of the South and the heart of an artist.

• An ode to the ambidextrous

  Overcoming political fundamentalism with a little openness.

• Isolation in community

  What happens when church becomes a social club with unwritten rules?

• Explosive application

  A review of the new film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road -- and a wake-up call to Christians who dare to discern.

• The wedding planner

  Sorting out the essentials and non-essentials of the ceremony.

• When you point your finger...

  Re-examining the checklist for who's in and who's out.

• Naked dreams

  If you confess your sins to a lion in the jungle, does anybody hear them?

• Living from mystery

  On truth, interpretation and the search for a bible-based way of life.

• A word from Rosie and a cup of tea

  On learning how to be present in each moment of every year of life.

• A tale of three or four teachers

  Learning from the ancestral line about intuition vs. skill in teaching.

• Starting over

  Remembering the challenges and triumphs of the teen years.

• Put your whole self in

  Encouraging faith communities to lament together.

• How about a little heresy

  When it comes to unorthodox beliefs, you can ask, but not many will tell.

• Breaking the rules

  The challenges of discussing fashion with Christians.

• Listening to fashion

  On moving from image to person in our inevitable judgments of clothing.

• Viewing the whole person

  Responding to revenge porn victims -- and ourselves -- with compassion.

• Daring to belong

  A reflection on the community of Acts and accepting the invitation.

• Grassroots revolution

  A call to regenerative discipleship.