catapult magazine

Items tagged justice

• No problem, Warren

  Ten organizations I would talk about if I were invited to dinner with Warren Buffet.

• Ears to hear

  A reflection on the songs that we let in, and the songs that we shut out.

• No un-growth

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

• Abundance for all

  What's right with the prosperity gospel?

• Ten reasons I love to pay my taxes

  Reflections from a morning bike ride on the good things about chipping in.

• Bringing up Bart

  Imaging youth group as an expression of what we are for.

• Placing our hope

  Considering hope and fear twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

• Does Shane Claiborne use Google?

  Google knows ten things to be true...so what are our certainties?

• Is smaller always better?

  Questioning the motivations and effectiveness of fair trade coffee.

• A simple phrase

  Keeping the goal in sight beyond the glitter of wealth.

• Big Hope, small hope

  On our ridiculous attempt to walk with students through the valley of despair.

• The invisible border

  Mapping a neighborhood by streets, class and color -- and hoping for a better way home.

• Do not enter

  On following Jesus into forbidden territory.

• Recovering an ancient vision for popular culture

  A review of Journey to the Common Good by Walter Brueggemann.

• Popularity contest

  Examining the notion of popular culture in a segregated society.

• When you point your finger...

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

• Stickin’ it to the man

  Who, exactly, is "the man"...and what can we do about him?

• Fallibilism is true!

  Decartes vs. Paul on certainty, deception and human flourishing in the real world.

• Unexpected legacies

  Learning about the toxic injustices left behind by the nuclear arms race.

• More weight

  Relieving the unbearable lightness of privilege.

• Saturday mornings in the church basement

  Thoughts on charity and social justice.

• In feast or fallow

  A reflection on the burdens -- and the delights -- of mindful eating.

• Sweeping, not swept up

  On scrubbing consumerism's stain out of our cleaning rituals.

• How to improve education in the United States

  Seven rules from the perspective of a parent and professional educator.

• Transformed by awareness

  Learning to see and dismantle global injustice.

• My “go local” rant

  Raising critical questions about the goodness and integrity of a local focus.

• Popcorn and prophets

  Gathering around a screen toward repentance and lament.

• The imperfect body

  Wrestling with church as a single mother.

• Drinking to remember

  The community that drinks together, stays together.

• An autobiography, with tea

  A North American looks to look beyond the leaves.