catapult magazine

Items tagged practice

• Practicing Resurrection at Russet House Farm

  A report on a community gathering to explore the role of sustainability in a life of Christian faithfulness.

• Cleanliness is adjacent to godliness

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

• Melinda Mae Missiology

  Examining our role in “building” God’s Kingdom here on earth.

• Nazis and fashionistas

  How two films opened a window on walking ideas.

• Is it believable?

  Expanding a commonly asked question about the Bible and Christian faith.

• Learning new ways

  A review of Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.

• Incarnational Meditation Exercises 1-3

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

• Be still and know

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

• Recovering joy

  What can we do when we discover our joy has been stolen from us?

• A foretaste of the feast to come

  A reflection on a full-bodied model for teaching, celebrating and practicing communion.

• Look around you!

  A review of Nora Gallagher's book The Sacred Meal.

• Concerning why I preach barefoot

  A reflection on the connectedness of holiness, humility and homiletics.

• Now we begin

  On the relationship between solitude and serving others.

• Writing to remember

  On the loss of love letters in a technological age.

• The weight of dust

  A reflection on the significance of the human body. 

• Learning the rhythms of the New Creation

  An Easter reflection on growing together in our church communities.

• Upside down education

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

• Screening desires

  A reflection on the ways in which film can shape who we are and who we wish to become.

• Transformation through conversation

  A review of The Virtue of Dialogue by Christopher Smith.

• Kicking coffee with Maxine Hong Kingston

  Recounting a beverage battle that led to new insight.

• Fast food and forgetfulness

  Can our eating habits really induce us to forget God?

• Making our peace with time

  A review of Julia Scatliff O’Grady’s Good Busy: Productivity, Procrastination, and the Endless Pursuit of Balance.

• Vegetarian discipleship

  Gleanings from nearly 25 years of eating everything -- except meat.

• A Pharisee who picks her nose asks for eyes

  On the discipline of seeing Cincinnati at a slower speed.

• Why I Sundance

  Hint: it’s about more than just stalking celebrities (with a little of that, too).