catapult magazine

Items tagged suffering

• Sin, suffering and Generation X

  A new ministry seeks to meet the needs of Generation X by celebrating what we can never fully understand.

• The hard parts

  On the suffering that penetrates even the colorfully-decorated walls of a kindergarten classroom.

• I survived The Passion of The Christ

  The long-awaited film is finally here—what can we make of media opinions now that we can finally see it for ourselves?

• A Beloved Enemy

  To overcome pain and fear, we must first desire to let go of our suffering.

• Camino de Santiago

  Reflections on a walk worth the suffering.

• The fellowship of the guilty

  ?By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin and so death passed upon all men.?

• Ghetto ballet lessons

  If mourning were literally transformed into dancing, what would the transformation look like?

• A light shines

  A U2 concert provides truth and healing in the midst of suffering.

• Bombardment

  The emotional and spiritual education of gym class.

• Late night thoughts on incarnation

  What does it mean to be fully human?

• Christ didn't come to give us the willies

  A reflection on the implications of downplaying the suffering memories of Good Friday.

• Discovering the Psalms during Holy Week

  Seven reflections on psalms that bear the echoes of biblical narrative themes.

• Mean old world

  The Good News of holy week can be an awfully scary story.

• Order not understood

  A review of the film Babel.

• And heals all your diseases

  A sermon on Psalm 103 from a service of healing.

• Pondering deficiency

  Reflection on illness reveals one of a different sort.

• A reason to smile

  A daughter’s medical condition requires finding a way to confront and understand death and suffering.

• Suffering and love

  Photographs from Mother Theresa’s Home for the Destitute and Dying serve as aids for remembering important lessons.

• Splendor in the grass

  Ode on intimations of mortality from recollecting Little Miss Sunshine.

• High on security

  A call to acknowledge suffering even as we celebrate good gifts.

• Haunted by hope

  A reflection on expectations at the initiation of another Advent.

• Hating my family

  The times, they are a changin’ in my family and yours.

• Sinking down

  On gaining a "sense of place" through knowledge of nightmares.

• Not a lap God

  On the images of God that meet us at various times in various places.

• Supernovaena

• Ten things I learned in a difficult year

  Lessons from tough times, in no particular order of importance.

• Surrendering to receive

  On Lenten fasting as physical and spiritual preparation for the Easter celebration.

• Ears to hear

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

• Abundance for all

  What's right with the prosperity gospel?

• Joy and melancholy

  Sifting through St. Paul's letter to the Philippians in an effort to discover what it means to "rejoice in the Lord always."