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Spring 2007, Vol. 7, No.
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EDITORIAL:
LONGING FOR LIFE AS IT'S MEANT TO BE
"The materials in this issue in
their various ways evoke longing for
more. . . ."
LETTER
BY DAVID W. CORBIN
Poetry
POETRY BY ANN M. SHULTZ
"Was it a sin / Just to look back?
It was too much to ask.?
POETRY
BY JONATHAN BEACHY
"But even as I scream, in the midst
of rage and / Pain, comes the awareness
that manure / Is redeemable. . . ."
POETRY
BY FREDA ZEHR
"The sight of them stirs a far-off
memory in me: / Was it my own mothers
eyes? So dark were those eyes. . .
."
POETRY
BY KENNETH GIBBLE
"To you it's cacophonous din / To
God / it's Mozart."
THE
SEARCH FOR LIFE AS IT’S MEANT TO BE
Lauren Deville
"Beauty magazines are . . . really
selling an entire life."
TORNADOES
IN THE NIGHT
Lisa Weaver
"Prayer tells our children that we
sense God as a current within our daily
lives. . . ."
The Turquoise
Pen
BACON BITS
Noël R. King
"’That does it!’ cried
Truman once again, this time out loud.
‘I’ve had it with muses! This
is my life, my words, my whatever!
It’s time to live, live,
LIVE!’"
STAND
UP STRAIGHT
Ross T. Bender
"On the good days (when I remembered
to take meds on time), I could move
around well. On other days I remembered
keenly the meaning of the term movement
disorder."
DANNY
AND ME
David W. Corbin
"I got it up to 105 before it blew a
head gasket."
PASSOVER/PASSION
WEEK 1977 LIVES ON
Jonathan Beachy
"Out of the pain we lived that day,
three beautiful children, Heidi, Joel,
and Peter eventually joined our
family."
Beneath the
Skyline
GETTING A WORD IN
EDGEWISE
Deborah Good
"This column is about my
friends’ duct-taped mouths in front
of the Federal Building, and about the
struggle to be heard."
Community Sense
A MOMENT OF GRACE
Mark R. Wenger
"Kairos. That’s the time with
Mom and Dad that is precious to me now. .
. ."
Kingsview
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM
THOSE WHO DON’T GO TO CHURCH--AND
EVEN FROM THOSE WHO DO
Michael A. King
"When loved ones die, when our own
lives fall apart, often our
non-churchgoing ways of finding spiritual
food don’t satisfy."
Reel
Reflections
HOPEFUL NIGHTMARE: A
REVIEW OF "CHILDREN OF MEN"
David Greiser
"Parallels between Kee and the
biblical Mary are not subtly drawn."
Books,
Faith, World & More
THE BIBLE STORY—OUR STORY: REVIEWS
OF TELLING
OUR STORIES: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF
ENGAGEMENT WITH SCRIPTURE AND
THE ART OF READING
SCRIPTURE
Daniel Hertzler
"If all of this and more can be
accomplished in a weekend, what can be
done over four years?"
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