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Autumn 2001, Vol. 1, No.
2
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Editorial
AMAZING GRACE AND
09-11-01
"I risked launching pacifism so
righteously as to become one more
zealot."
Response
BY ELIZABETH RAID
"The Apostle Paul calls us beyond
being babes in Christ. So too the church
must move beyond an excluding sense of
being a particular type of family."
POETRY BY ANN
HOSTETLER AND ANGELA
LEHMAN-RIOS
KNEELING
WITH TURTLES
Brian D. McLaren
"So I let her live and just kneeled
there with her for a few minutes, living
myself in a new way somehow, just for
having joined her in her last moments in
that bright sunlight blazing from above
and that macadam heat rising from
beneath."
MRS.
BRAGG
Elaine V. Yoder
"Yet here stood Mrs. Bragg, my
protector. Looking beyond my anger, she
saw something more true of me than my
rage. She had eyes to see my tender heart
shrinking behind my self-contempt and the
callouses hiding wounds."
Kingsview
THANKFUL FOR GRATITUDE,
WIND, AND COLD FRONTS
Michael A. King
"I first really woke up to the power
of gratitude when one day I focused,
truly focused, on the feel of the wind
blowing and the look of it as it was made
visible in the dance of tree
leaves."
HEALING
LOVER
Karen Jantzi
"My name is on your hands. The scars
are my name. You don't show them to
punish me. You don't push them in my face
asking, "How could you do this to
me?". You show them to comfort
me."
GRAFFITO
Julie Gochenour
"Without realizing it, I had
spray-painted my feelings of anger, hurt,
and betrayal all over God. I found I
wasn't looking at God at all; I was
fleeing my own dark response to my dad's
suicide."
GENEALOGY
AS WINDOW INTO WHO WE WERE AND ARE
Kara Hartzler
"By the third generation, the
children were leaving the church because
they only saw the outward shell of rules
and regulations. You can just see it in
family after family."
THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF ANABAPTIST SCHOLARS
Ted Grimsrud
"I believe that because of the gifts
theologians have been given, have
nurtured, and are hired to exercise, open
expression is something our schools
should encourage."
ANABAPTIST
ACADEMIC FREEDOM: AN ADMINISTRATOR
REFLECTS
Joseph L. Lapp
"In addition to protecting the
freedom of its scholars, a university
wishes to experience its own corporate
academic freedom from the interference of
political, religious, or other special
interest groups."
Marginalia
RECOVERING FROM THE
SHAKING-HEAD SYNDROME
Valerie Weaver-Zercher
"When we represent others as
primarily needy, we perpetuate the lie
that we ourselves are somehow not in
need, even as they are completely
helpless."
Reel
Reflections
REVIEW: "O BROTHER,
WHERE ART THOU?"
David Greiser
"A postmodern worldview (if such
there be) is said to be characterized as
narratives in search of a metanarrative.
Many films of recent vintage illustrate
this perspective, perhaps none better
than the madcap travelogue, 'O Brother,
Where Art Thou?'"
Books,
Faith, World & More
BREAD AND MILK FOR
CHILDREN IN SPAIN
Daniel Hertzler
"There are those who accuse
Mennonites of hiding behind the bloody
efforts of persons such as Mowat. We need
not accept this charge, but if we did, we
could take satisfaction from the
contrasting and positive feelings these
five peaceful warriors had toward their
experience in the Spanish Civil War, and
we might also ask what their example may
teach us about how we might comparably
live today."
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