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Winter 2007, Vol. 7, No.
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EDITORIAL:
FROM MENNONITE TO ANABAPTIST AND BEYOND
"How do members of any subculture
embrace their heritage yet offer its
gifts to those shaped by other
communities?"
POETRY
BY TRAVIS POLING
"that is why she turned, why / she
stands, still weeping. . . ."
POETRY
BY KEN GIBBLE
Can I have a LifeSaver? / he whispered to
his mother. . . ."
POETRY
BY M. CHRISTINE BENNER
"But the worst thing about loving a
city and not a man / is that the city
never wonders."
POP
GOES THE MENNONITE: CONVERSATIONS WITH AN
ARTIST AND HIS WORK
Vicki Sairs
"Viewers might even find themselves
longing for a little more clarity and
reassurance that their world is not
really as dangerous a place as it appears
to be in the Pop-Mennonite exhibit."
POP-MENNONITE
Don Swartzentruber
"At a time when my identity was
forming, I witnessed the excommunication
of my father. In this intimate black and
white painting, I wanted the congregation
to sustain a voyeuristic ambiance."
Books, Faith,
World & More
FARMING IN THE CITY: A
REVIEW OF TAKING
ROOT IN STRANGE SOIL: HYATTSVILLE
MENNONITE CHURCH
Daniel Hertzler
"In December 1951, nine persons met
separately to consider where to go from
there. This was the beginning of what
would become Hyattsville Mennonite
Church."
Kingsview
AT THE END OF ETHNIC
MENNONITE LIFE
Michael A. King
"There are basic differences between
those of us who grew up in my
Swiss-German Mennonite world and those
raised in their many alternate settings
that must somehow be named and worked
at."
PAINTINGS
OF MEMORY, HISTORY, AND LIGHT
Randall Stoltzfus
"I have been asked, ‘Is this
Jesus Christ?’ I have also been
accused of painting Osama Bin Laden.
Personally, I am more interested in the
first interpretation, but I am fascinated
by the strength and variety of
convictions that emerge."
CULTURAL
AGORAPHOBIA: WHY YOUNG POSTMODERN
MENNONITES STRUGGLE TO FOLLOW OR LEAD
David
Landis
"Growing up in an Anabaptist
tradition, I have experienced power as a
spiritual taboo."
JUST
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE—OR
PHILADELPHIA?
Steve Kriss
"He spoke of the Amish and the power
of forgiveness. He dared us not to
beatify the Amish but beckoned us to live
that same life of powerful forgiveness in
this city of violence and fear."
Ink Aria
WHAT I KNEW WHEN I WAS
LITTLE AND DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING
Renee Gehman
"At age 22 I was born into Vietnam,
and though both feet and hands entered
this new world at their adult stages, my
brain feels like it’s had to start
from scratch."
Beneath the
Skyline
SOME THOUGHTS ON HELPING
Deborah Good
"’You could work in any number
of editing and journalistic
fields—and it would work—but
you shouldn’t do that. Why
not?’"
THE
CHAOS OF GOD
Jody Fernando
"We easily recognize that
nature’s chaos is capable of
creating immeasurable beauty. Why, then,
is it so hard to glimpse beauty in the
chaos in our own lives?"
The Turquoise
Pen
A NEW STORY
Noël R. King
"There you have it. There is a story
that has never begun and will never end.
It is timeless. Thus, it can never be
told."
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