catapult magazine

vol. 12, num. 8 :: 2013.04.12 — 2013.04.25

On March 30, 2013, the Hermitage Community, a contemplative retreat center in Three Rivers, Michigan, held a service of confession, lament and hope in preparation for the construction of a new Enbridge crude oil pipeline that will cut through the center on its way from Canada to a refinery in Indiana. Another service took place the same day on a section of the pipeline in Manitoba. This issue contains some of the material that was presented at the Hermitage service, as well as reflections inspired by it.

Feature

Enough already

by Peggy Deames

A Holy Saturday lament over losses due to a new crude oil pipeline through the Hermitage and environs.

Editorial

Counterspeaking contradictions

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

On the paradoxes of lament and hope, destruction and creation, failure and commitment.

Articles

Without bounds

by Will Braun

A lament from 900 miles up the pipeline.

The earth speaks

by Naomi R. Wenger and David Wenger

The directors of the Hermitage Community give voice to the land in the face of impending upheaval.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Peak oil "to do" list

by Kurt Cobb

Why we should do these things anyway.

The BP oil spill: A Christian call for lament and reconciliation

by Christopher Smith and Ragan Sutterfield

Resources for individuals and congregations to respond on June 20, 2010, the two-month anniversary of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Untitled (Hermitage)

by Deborah Haak

Weaving the web

Crossing the (pipe)line

Canadian Mennonite

Will Braun writes on personal encounters with the biggest industry on earth.

Christian pray over Enbridge pipeline

Huff Post Religion

A report and a video from Gretna, Manitoba.

Forced fossil fuel fast

The Practical Mystic

Nancy Myers reflects on her experience after the service of lament.

NY-based InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer

Wall Street Journal

Prize awarded to series about the "biggest oil spill you've never heard of" on an Enbridge line crossing the Kalamazoo River in southwest Michigan.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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