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Winter 2002, Vol. 2, No.
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Editorial
EDITORIAL: BETWEEN THE
WAR AND THE GINGKO LEAVES II
"So how does one avoid falling into
extremes: the drain of workaholic
activism and friendship, or the apathy of
escapist pleasures?"
POETRY BY
DAVID WRIGHT AND WILLIAM
DELLLINGER
COLD
SPELL
Julie Gochenour
"Suddenly, unexpectedly, the last
thing I thought I'd ever say is torn out
of me. 'Thank you for the destruction,
God.'"
REFLECTIONS
ON TIME AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
Elizabeth Raid
"How connected life is! How
generations have the same wonderings, the
same questions, the same hopes and
dreams."
HOLY
AND HALLOWED: LIFE AFTER NEW YORK, AFTER
SEPTEMBER 11
Steve Kriss
"It took several days for me to
muster the courage to walk through Lower
Manhattan. Thousands of people must
trudge to work every day in that area,
but I felt nervous and voyeuristic."
WHAT
SHOULD WE DO WITH TERRORISTS?
Ronald B. Schertz
"It would be difficult to argue that
nothing should be done. The attacks . . .
were evil."
IS
THIS THE BEST PEACE WITNESS MENNONITES
CAN OFFER?
Mark R. Wenger
"To be candid, I have found much
public Mennonite peace theology after
September 11 to be purist and
utopian."
NINE
MODEST PROPOSALS FOR A PEACE CHURCH IN
PERILOUS TIMES
Phil Kniss
"How does any peace-teaching church
manage to have a relevant word for a
fragmented world when its own unity is
being challenged from within?"
Marginalia
CRACKING UP: CAN
PEACEMAKERS HAVE HUMOR AND HOPE?
Valerie Weaver-Zercher
"There's no doubt activists . . .
doing "impossible" work need
spiritual and communal resources . . . to
maintain their energy. . . . But I'm
beginning to think my laughter . . .
contained the seeds of another important
resource for peacemakers: a sense of
humor."
TWISTER
OF FATE
Jamie s. Shaver
"I ran out of accusations and
obscenities. I was drained and relieved.
I said thank you to God for listening and
told him I could move matters back into
my own hands."
EPISTEMOLOGY
AND TRASH, OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP
WORRYING AND (ALMOST) LOVE LITTER
Angela Lehman-Rios
"As I've thought in circles about
why there's so much litter in my
neighborhood, and why I seem to have made
the problem into something larger than
itself, . . . I've realized I'm
fascinated by something I just can't
understand."
Reel
Reflections
SOME FILMS ON THE
SPIRITUAL SEARCH
David Greiser
"Within that year a raft of good
films dealt with some element of the
search for God, life after death, the
meaning of being human in God's world, or
the relation of one's ethical life to God
and the life beyond."
Books,
Faith, World & More
IF YOU NEED A SECOND
OPINION: REVIEW OF THE
BODY AND THE BOOK,
BY JULIA KASDORF
Daniel Hertzler
"It appears that two topics are of
particular interest to Kasdorf: sexuality
and power. Actually, when we stop to
think of it, are there any other
important topics?"
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