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Autumn 2003, Vol. 3, No.
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Editorial
LIVING WILD LIKE BARKLEY
AND MADISON
"Barkley raced ahead as if he had
never seen either the sun or the world
itself and couldn’t believe its
grandeurs. I hope reading this issue
feels like that."
RESPONSE
BY DOROTHY CUTRELL and LETTER BY JOHN
STONER
"As I ponder my part in the General
Conference-Mennonite Church merger from
within my current setting and the
perspectives provided by de Puy, I need
to own my part. . . . When the vote was
taken on whether to make the GC-MC union
complete and official, I enthusiastically
cast a yes vote. . . .I didn't realize
how anxiety about money and thirst for
power would corrupt the process,"
says Dorothy Cutrell.
POETRY
BY MARK STEVICK
"You come and go and in your going
stay, / And as you take your place you
take your leave: / Away from me, return
again I pray. . . ."
POETRY
BY HELEN WADE ALDERFER
"When you are alone you may talk to
yourself, / sing a few bars of 'Aida,' /
twirl a few dance steps while the tea
water boils / (but only if you are
alone). . . ."
Books,
Faith, World & More
TOO MUCH SEX AND
VIOLENCE? COMING TO TERMS WITH THE BIBLE
Daniel Hertzler
"Constantinianism. . . advocates
vengeance despite the fact that . . .
Deuteronomy 32:35 and . . . Romans 12:19
assign this responsibility to the Lord.
Constantinianism will not wait for the
Lord."
GOD
ALIVE AT GOSPEL CHURCH
Luanne Austin
"Though the worship was unplanned by
leaders or a committee, the services at
Gospel were always orderly, as though
planned by Someone Else."
REUNION:
A FATHER AND A SON TRAVEL THROUGH FIRE
AND ICE
C. Jack Orr
"I had heard too many of my father's
sermons on 'He who is not for us is
against us.' Why should I break the
illusion of family harmony?"
Beneath the
Skyline
GROWING UP WHITE
Deborah Good
"I grew up white in a predominantly
African-American city. . . . My white
skin has painful and complicated
meaning."
Community
Sense
WE WON'T PLANT CORN
TODAY
Mark R. Wenger
"I'm not arguing for a return of the
'blue laws' . . . . Let the marketplace
rule; just don't let it rule us!"
Reel
Reflections
TWO BLOCKBUSTERS ADDRESS
GOD, PROVIDENCE, AND FREE WILL
David Greiser
"In 'The Matrix Reloaded' and 'Bruce
Almighty,' we have a film that reaches
for the cathedral, a cinematic meatball,
and two above average attempts to explore
the meaning of being human."
THE
WRECK: COLLISION AND MEMORY
Laura Lehman Amstutz
"When people ask about the scar on
my face I give the five-second version:
'My family was in a car accident when I
was little.' But the story is more than
11 words."
The
Turquoise Pen
MAN SEES SUNRISE FOR THE
FIRST TIME
Nöel R. King
"'It alarmed me,' Mrs. Anna Wisler
said later. 'I thought he was having a
heart attack or something. I had no idea
he was, like, seeing the sun rise for the
first time.'"
Kingsview
DREAMING INTO THE WEST:
ON THE ROAD WITH JACK KEROUAC AND JESUS
CHRIST
Michael A. King
"Listening . . . I felt a surge of
almost unbearable longing for the West
and its kicks. Kerouac’s words set
aflame my own similar reasons for loving
the West."
IN MEMORIAM: EVELYN KING
MUMAW
"So now she is gone, but she lives
on in the hands of the one who, as she
quoted from Psalm 18 in one of her
articles, 'is my rock.'"
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