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Spring 2006, Vol. 6, No.
2
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Editorial
LOVING WHEN IT’S
TOUGH
Michael A. King
" DSM Spring 2006 revolves around
the quest to love life and each other
when it’s tough."
POETRY
BY JOYCE PEACHEY LIND
"She and I / Two people of
similar lineage / She with strings tied
under her chin / I with three earrings
for two ears."
POETRY
BY CLARISSA JAKOBSENS
" Touch me, says Andris. /
Touch me."
POETRY
BY LARRY MOFFITT
"He was ancient and
familiar, / a cross between the smell of
dried leaves / and the taste copper
pennies leave in your mouth."
LOVING
BELLA EVERY DAY
Rose Decaen
"Out of nowhere we received a call
from our social worker at the agency:
Bella’s birthfather, John, and Anne
were a couple again. He wanted to meet
Bella. . . . My world was rocked."
MAKING
MUSIC WITH WHAT I HAVE LEFT
Carolyn Schrock-Shenk
"I AM more than just the chair I sit
in. . . . At the same time I am aware
that being a ‘crip,’
‘handicapped,’ ‘physically
challenged’ . . . is now as much a
part of who I am as being white and
female and heterosexual."
SOJOURNS
AND CONFESSIONS OF A COMPASSIONATE RACIST
Mel Leaman
"The problem was that I
unconsciously approached such persons as
the poor who had nothing to offer the
rich. . . ."
RESPECTING
A RACIST
Benson Prigg
"It was painful for me to see the
sorrow and tears that came from this
strong man who had never viewed things
from my perspective. He had never
realized an action so seemingly small
could be interpreted as racist."
Beneath the
Skyline
TAKING ROOT
Deborah Good
"Wasted time? Perhaps we need our
wasted time—seasons to let our
fields sit fallow, allowing the soil of
our lives to recuperate."
CHOCOLATE
AND EASTER
Carole Boshart
"I hold these two together, the
stony path to the cross and the sweet
crunch of chocolate-covered nuts."
The Turquoise
Pen
POCKETS OF DEATH AND
ELEPHANTS
Noël R. King
"’Saw another pocketa death in
the office today,’ the first man
said to the second. ‘Kinda shook me
up, you wanna know the truth.’"
Community Sense
A CASE FOR FAMILY CARE
Mark R. Wenger
"Children and immediate family
members with the means to help carry
primary responsibility for aging parents
who become dependent and low on
money."
Reel
Reflections
"BROKEBACK
MOUNTAIN": A PARABLE OF THE
CONVERSATION
David Greiser
"It struck me that ‘Brokeback
Mountain’ serves as a kind of
sobering metaphor for our failed
conversations as a church."
http://www.CascadiaPublishingHouse.com/dsm/current/greida.htm
Books, Faith, World & More
THE PEN, MIGHTY OR NOT:
A REVIEW OF JUSTICE
AND ONLY JUSTICE
AND OF BETHLEHEM
BESIEGED
Daniel Hertzler
"As a theologian, Raheb reflects on
the case of the mysterious sufferer in
Isaiah 53. Jews have seen themselves
here, Christians have seen Jesus, and
Raheb sees the plight of the Palestinians
reflected in this text."
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