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Winter 2008, Vol. 8, No.
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EDITORIAL:
CELEBRATING FAITH TREASURES
"Celebrating the treasures in our
own faith journeys. And pondering what to
do with conflicting treasures. That seems
to me what this issue of DreamSeeker
Magazine is in many ways
about."
LETTER
ME
AND MY HOUSE
Elrena Evans
"Maybe faith meant trusting in
something I couldn't verify, couldn't
prove-hence, faith."
Kingsview
INFANT BAPTISM FRIDAY
AFTER ADULT BAPTISM SUNDAY: A RIDDLE
Michael A. King
"'Now here,' I observed, 'comes your
article on baptism of your baby daughter!
Interesting the ways of the
Spirit.'"
Ink Aria
LICENSED TO FISH AND
AFRAID TO CAST THE LINE
Renee Gehman
I am not sharing my faith with anyone
except other Christians.
Books, Faith,
World & More
A TIME FOR
RENEWAL--AGAIN: REVIEWS OF ROAD
SIGNS FOR THE JOURNEY, IS IT INSENSITIVE
TO SHARE YOUR FAITH? AND
BORDERS AND BRIDGES
Daniel Hertzler
"The answer is that the faith may be
shared-if it is done sensitively."
ON
FOOTWASHING SUNDAY
Mary Alice Hostetter
"I knelt and slid the basin of water
under her feet. I tried not to look at
the lumpy bunions, the calluses, the
black toenails."
QUINCEAÑERA
BY PROXY
Carol Nowlin
"I knew there was no prince. Yet I
kept sneaking down to the basement, . .
."
Beneath The
Skyline
I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP
Deborah Good
"The question . . . is not whether I
am dependent or independent, but rather
who I depend on and who depends on
me."
POETRY
BY MICHAEL DEGAN
"Simple people trample on the
desert. / I write their names in the
sand."
Reel
Reflections
SECULARIZING ST.
AUGUSTINE IN "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD
MEN"
Dave Greiser
"Analysts of McCarthy's novels have
long been fascinated by his creation of
worlds in which God is absent yet the
novels' inhabitants are evil, even
'sinful' by nature."
"THE
SMALL, BEAUTIFUL THING": SAYING NO
IN A CULTURE OF YES
Valerie Weaver-Zercher
"Only when we can no longer say yes,
do we learn the spiritual discipline of
saying no."
The Turquoise
Pen
LIFE GOES ON
Noël R. King
"He closed the door and said, 'You
are going to live forever!'"
POETRY
BY FREDA ZEHR
"You boys get to work and get all
those weeds / pulled before sundown or
you will both get a whipping."
POETRY
BY CHERYL DENISE
"He meanders in grace, / eyes
wrinkling into his cheeks. . . ."
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