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Autumn 2002, Vol. 2, No. 4
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Editorial
SWEET IN SAD
"
No contributor fails in some way to see light within dark, sweet within sad."

POETRY BY BARBARA SHISLER

A FIRST-TIME VISIT TO AN OLD-TIME PLACE
C. Jack Orr

"The secular university seemed the logical place to find an unfettered intellectual haven. I became a university professor. Academe would be my church. My mission: To help students think about their thinking so as to improve their lives. . . . The horror that gripped the world on September 11 awakened me from my non-dogmatic slumbers. It seemed that Moses stood before the entrance to the twenty-first century with the ancient invitation: "I put before you this day, life and death, blessings and cursing; therefore, chose life that you might live."

THE CRAZY AND WONDERFUL POWER OF SONG
Joan K. King
"When I sit in this place hallowed by thousands of Sundays of singing, surrounded by people as different from me as night from day—yet hearing what music we make together—I marvel at the wonder and the breadth of God’s grace."

SENTIMENTAL FAITH VERSUS THE GOD WHO IS "I AM"
Luanne Austen
"Sentimental faith dwells on what God did yesterday. I am still moved at the mercy of God that forgave my youthful crimes. . . . I weep at the great things he has done. And I sometimes long for yesterday, when all my troubles seemed so far away because he was so present."

THE DESCENDANT OF THE MAN WHO BUILT A CHAIR FOR JESUS
Gregory Hartzler-Miller
"As a young man in 1809, Jonas ‘White’ Stutzman was the first of European stock to build a cabin and settle in Holmes County. . . . But in his later years, he became, as some Amish observers say, 'a little unusual.' . . . Being in his bloodline, and knowing some of my own tendencies toward eccentricity, his story drew me in."

THE SCAB
Joe Franzen
"This cut had hurt me more than I could ever have imagined. My legs were chopped out from under me. My heart was beaten and bruised. It hurt to breathe and to move."

LESSONS FROM MY FATHER’S LAMP
Elizabeth Raid

"My thoughts were with my 89-year-old father, curled up in the narrow nursing home bed. What had happened to his 40-year association with our church college as professor, registrar, librarian, archivist?"

Marginalia
WHAT’S WRONG WITH "DOING WHAT’S BEST FOR THE KIDS"?
Valerie Weaver-Zercher

"When did my love for my child turn into a grocery list of my own perfectionism? When did I get caught in this catch-22 of socially conscious but middle-class parenthood?"

Reel Reflections
"SIGNS" AND WONDERS
Dave Greiser

"Shyamalan’s films explore spiritual themes with the kind of tolerance and gentleness characteristic of his parents’ faith and at the same time also the rational precision of much Christian theology."

Kingsview
IT ALL ENDS
Michael A. King

"Finally it had sunk in, into my bones (which will turn brittle) and into my flesh (which is, as Scripture says, like grass), and not only into my theorizing brain, that it all ends. . . . If national leaders cannot be expected to be pacifists, they should be expected at the very least to have stared death in the face, to have been sobered by it, and to show evidence that they understand what it means to take a life, whether that of the earth itself or of other people

Books, Faith, World & More
TIME TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: REVIEW OF THREE BOOKS
Daniel Hertzler

"How is it that we have come to where we are in relation to our environment? Who has decreed that we should be free to "trash" it? . . . As may be expected, the U.S., as the biggest economy and the biggest polluter, is the slowest to change. It appears that the problem is made worse by having ‘oilmen’ . . . in the White House."

The Turquoise Pen
MARY ANN’S SECRET
Noël R. King

"Every time I sat with her, starting just a few days after her encounter with herself on the bus, I intently watched Mary Ann’s blinking eyes, trying to understand her secret. Blink. Blink. Blink. The only thing I could see was a small Mona Lisa smile whenever Mary Ann blinked."

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