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Autumn 2005, Vol. 5, No.
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Editorial
LIFE IS RICH AND
PRECIOUS
Michael A. King
"Life throbs with moments to be
savored, thoughts to be rolled carefully
through the mind, relationships to be
treasured."
LETTERS
POETRY
BY ESTHER YODER STENSON
"The day Aunt Katie let my / tiny
body fall back from / her arms with a
jerk, / like a rag doll, / I cried all
day like a knife / had done cut me
through /
for good."
POETRY
BY SHARI WAGNER
"My grandfather has climbed into his
truck, / a rusty blue ford with a few
stray / bales of hay bouncing like
children / in the back."
REPORT
FROM AMISH COUNTRY
Kirsten Eve Beachy
"Later comes a house on fire, the
Hostetlers in Berks County, Pennsylvania,
getting slaughtered in a raid during the
French and Indian War. ‘Our
ancestors!’ we say excitedly."
PARABLE
OF THE RAW EGGS
Lauren D. McKinney
"’’Thanks, Ted! That was
fun!’ I lied wildly. Praise should
be heaped upon anyone making an effort to
be creative with children’s time,
short of using matches and lighter fluid
to demonstrate a burning bush."
Community Sense
PAYING ATTENTION
"We live . . . with the illusion
that we can expand our personal
bandwidth, connecting to more and more.
Instead we end up overstimulated,
overwhelmed, and unfulfilled."
Mark R. Wenger
Ink Aria
PLANNING FOR SPONTANEITY
"There are those who are naturally
spontaneous, while others (such as
myself) need to have spontaneous activity
practically forced on them through
mockery and other methods of
insult."
Renee Gehman
CHURCH
AND POP CULTURE: OR WHY I READ HARRY
POTTER
"In Harry Potter, as in the
Christian story, good does defeat evil,
but it is a long hard
battle usually championed by unexpected
and sometimes unwilling people."
Laura Lehman Amstutz
The Turquoise
Pen
JONNY COME LATELY
"He was scared silly that he would
get trapped in his own stories, that his
words would just drag him right in."
Noël R. King
Beneath The
Skyline
SO WHAT DO YOU DO?
"Simple interactions with
acquaintances and complete strangers have
become challenging in a new way since my
dad’s death."
Deborah Good
Reel
Reflections
STRUGGLES OF A FLAWED
SUPERHERO: A REVIEW OF "BATMAN
BEGINS"
David Greiser
"Are good and evil powers ever
absolute? Not in the ‘Batman’
world-view. . . . The evil that Batman
would fight is not only external—it
is within him as well.
Kingsview
ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND
LOVING ENEMIES
"One response I’ve heard to
this situation is that. . . . There is
one big difference between our truth and
theirs: ours is really right—and
theirs is really wrong."
Michael A. King
Books, Faith,
World & More
MENNONITE PEACE WITNESS,
THEN AND NOW
Daniel Hertzler
http://www.CascadiaPublishingHouse.com/dsm/current/hertda.htm
"Driedger and Kraybill identify the
issue which troubles the church today:
how firm a position to take on peace and
peacemaking when inviting people to
membership."
THE
MEETING OF BODY, SPIRIT, AND SOIL: A
KINGDOM PARABLE
Darrin Belousek
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