catapult magazine

vol. 13, num. 13 :: 2014.06.27 — 2014.07.10

Language is a complicated thing. It can clarify and obfuscate, it can heal and wound, it can educate and confuse. This collection explores the words that have stuck with us, for whatever reason.

Feature

Growing up with the Word

by June Mears Driedger

From rote memorization to lectio divina: a journey with the God of the Bible.

Editorial

Found in translation

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Wrestling with a complicated ethno religious legacy.

Articles

Cooking with words

by Bethany Hofmann

On the art of slicing and dicing for delectable combinations.

Words, language and the naming of things

by Barbara Lee

A journey toward heresy and community.

Kacie and her words...

by Kacie Rogers

Confessions of a chronic scriblomaniac.

You can’t just use any word!

by Carol Brennan King

Life lessons in compassionate communication.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Let him hear

by Lisa Van Dyk

A very short sermon on true religion.

Not the words, but the voice

by Jonathan Huang

On the permeable boundary between a Chaim Potok novel and a summer internship.

Weaving the web

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Learning to pray

The Other Journal

Laura Lynn Brown on the weight of such words.

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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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