catapult magazine

Items tagged vocation

• Choosing to be single?

  Recounting a journey toward acceptance and intentionality.

• Fidelity and fecundity

  A farmer reflects on lessons from twelve years of harvests that apply to growing vegetables and far beyond.

• Paid in hope and heartbreak

  Why I volunteer -- and create opportunities for others to do the same.

• Not by chance

  A reflection on messy friends, neat friends and God's providence.

• Finding fact in fiction

  On trying to live out a costly vision after college.

• The best part...may it overflow!

  On vocation and waking up with a sense of purpose.

• Ten careers I’d trade mine for

  Anybody want to switch places?  See list for more details.

• Tesser well

  Lessons from a writer, to a writer, transcend the boundaries of time and space.

• Yielding

  Following an unconventional path to parenthood.

• How to improve education in the United States

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

• To enroll or not to enroll

  Ramblings about paying for college from a broke(n) prospective student.

• Answers come like drizzled honey

  Reflecting on the quality of connections as a single twenty-something grieving a loss.

• A tale of three or four teachers

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

• The freedom of less

  Taking a simple lifestyle for granted -- and occasionally, as an idol.

• Glimpses of the good life

  Reflecting on formational sights along the twenty-something leg of life’s journey.

• An American question

  Identifying cultural differences for expectations of the good life.

• Which good life?

  Following the trail of a neighbors death into the dense thicket of defining a life well-lived.

• Connoisseurship and the art of moving

  What questions should we be asking of a potential new place ... and perhaps of ourselves?

• Home tour

  Reflecting on glimpses of community during a three-week journey.

• Humbled by Frankenstein

  On being brought to life by Mary Shelley’s gothic tale.

• Living the homemade life

  How a forced transition became a welcome change.

• Quitting my dream

  To Africa and back again.

• A time to quit

  Leaving pastoral ministry ... and leaving God?