It does not appear that you can have a blog page in your menu (with all of your posts) and the customized front page with this theme without editing the theme. Instead, you must choose one or the other.
It seems to serve the theme properly if using SSL but not http; with the caveat that in Chrome the user will not get any CSS as the theme is sending the content in plain text.
I’m not sure if my issue is the same, but the latest change has had a significant impact; under Home Page in options the Content Area was on the left and the Featured Content was on the right. Now the Featured Content is underneath after the last Catchbox update.