catapult magazine

Items tagged relationship

• No tears flow at the mall

  Teaching children how to have a relationship with the natural environment cures an ache that is only temporarily dulled by material things.

• An e-mail address for the guy who took our photo at the place around the corner where we went for coffee

  The merging of two cultures yields a lesson in experiencing community.

• Late night thoughts on friends as family

  What does the biblical narrative help us understand about these relationships?

• The subtle uses of the knife

  A review of the film Closer.

• My spiritual heritage

  On the links between our spiritual and family trees.

• What dogs will eat

  A family?s food culture is cultivated in relationship with others, human and animal.

• Butternut Squash Soup

  A simple recipe for autumn and winter.

• Late night thoughts on necessity

  Lessons from Mary and Martha in the things we really need.

• Needing home

  Will a place to lay my head ever materialize?

• Giving grace

  Forgiveness has healing power, with or without apologies.

• Career anarchy

  On discovering that the question isn?t really what you want to be when you grow up?

• All we like sheep

  Our attempts at self-preservation deny a larger reality.

• Garret

  Sometimes our neighbor really is the person right across the lane.

• Lessons from the garbage bin

  On cultivating an appropriate attitude toward cleaning up life?s messes.

• The metamorphosis

  Is the starry-eyed optimism of the engaged a mere illusion?

• The purpose of sex

  On the unitive, procreative and recreational functions of sex.

• Coming down now

  Learning to live together in a house built on a foundation of public promises.

• The death of a marriage

  Divorce is never God's intention for marriage, but there is still grace.

• Marriage, before and after

  A condensed journal of a relationship, from start to middle.

• Naming the space

  A hand-me-down table was just the beginning?

• More of myself

  Reflection on experiences that flow between the community and the self.

• The inexpert practitioners

  On the local congregation?s alternative to a resident best-selling spirituality author.

• On mystery, curiosity and the Mediterranean sunbather

  A conversation between husband and wife about a curious European phenomenon.

• Another thing we ought to be doing

  A review of Hope Meadows by Wes Smith.

• The price of postage

  Moving beyond legalistic environmentalism to attentive stewardship.

• Idle chatter is the Lord's playground

  On listening as worship and as ministry.

• Top Ten re: weddings

  Thinking about making a public commitment? Tips inside.

• New poems from an old friend

  A review of Wendell Berry's Given: New Poems.

• All creatures of our God

  Consider the cat?

• A hidden self

  Reading the patterns of childhood in the adults we become.