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Summer 2005, Vol. 5, No.
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Editorial
LET’S DO MORE OF
THIS
"Respond with sharp critique and
incisive wit—even as you show that
you know your view is not God’s only
truth."
Michael A. King
POETRY
BY JOYCE PEACHEY LIND
"I knew it was a sin, but I
believed God’s music / came from a
saxophone / and the Holy Spirit wrote the
blues."
POETRY
BY ROBERT RHODES
"You men on the ground / in
a circle. . . / how long, only Allah
knows, / since you have seen home. . .
."
POETRY
BY MARILYN KENNEL
"It was said you were the
Queen of your family. Before you / died,
you peeled off that last layer of
clothing to stand / naked . . .
vulnerable . . . before those you
loved."
POETRY
BY CLARISSA JAKOBSENS
"Snap this picture,
remember it well / life blessed as a
codder half-baked on a shell."
HOW
SWARTLEY GETS IT WRONG: A REVIEW OF HOMOSEXUALITY
"Not homosexuals, not
gossips, not murderers, not insolent
children, not slanderers; none of us can
be denied access to the fullness of the
Church once we confess Jesus Christ as
Lord."
Bruce Hiebert
HOW
HIEBERT’S "WILD" CRITIQUE
GETS HOMOSEXUALITY WRONG
"Biblical creation theology is not
an inferior species to redemption
theology. Creation theology . . . is
firmly anchored in the redemption
theology of the covenant people."
Willard Swartley
ON
NOT QUITE GETTING IT
Bill McKibben
"What we’re more likely to do
is cast about desperately for every last
drop of oil. . . . So. . . . drill at the
North Pole, even as the rigs are
surrounded by the indisputable open-water
evidence of the folly of interfering with
the planet’s climate."
Beneath the
Skyline
IMPERFECT SCRAPS
Deborah Good
"It’s amazing how many times
self-acceptance has to be discovered
again and again."
THE
ANGRY, SELF-RIGHTEOUS SAMARITAN: IS HE
STILL GOOD?
Joy Kauffman
"They have a candlelight vigil which
involves prayers about the callous
indifference of the Christian preacher
and chants of "No more years."
The rescuer is thrilled."
Kingsview
THE TAILGATING PREACHER
AND OTHER CONFESSIONARY TALES
Michael A. King
"What made the laughter so deep was
not only that the stories were funny but
also that we could feel within the act of
telling them the healing lightness that
comes when instead of fleeing our
misbehaviors we together look at
them."
Reel
Reflections
"CRASH": A
REVIEW
David Greiser
"There is an undeniably spiritual
element in this film; an element of
predestination, and an even larger
intimation, at points, of divine
intervention."
The Turquoise
Pen
GABE’S STORY
Noel R. King
"It turns out that Gabe was
the story he had been trying so hard to
tell."
Books, Faith,
World & More
THE BALD-HEADED MEN AND
THE COMB: A REVIEW OF THE
REFORMATION AND OF A
CONTEMPORARY ANABAPTIST THEOLOGY
"Anabaptists and Mennonites turn up
regularly throughout the tome as
counterpoint to . . . 'Christendom' . . .
."
Daniel Hertzler
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