IN THIS ISSUE

Summer 2001, Vol. 1, No. 1
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Editorial
IN THE BEGINNING
Michael A. King
"No matter how many words spew forth . . . still we ache to find some part of the void until now untouched by human words."

POETRY BY JEFF GUNDY and STARLA J. KING

Marginalia
ON BEING A GEN-X FEMINIST WHO FINDS
HERSELF PREGNANT AND WITHOUT A REAL JOB
Valerie Weaver-Zercher
"Once again my frustration makes no logical sense. I want to stop resisting this 'mother' identity, to stop lashing out in my mind against those who embrace it."

MAKING THE MAN, SHAPING THE FAITH
Steve Kriss
"I hide that I am from the Allegheny Mountains and grew up close to 'rock dumps' in Scalp Level, Pennsylvania, where unemployment hovered around 30 percent for years."

THE FISH OF LIFE
Tina Burkholder
"Having found freedom to move away from the judgmental God of my childhood, I wondered if I was traveling toward a view of God that precluded God’s involvement in my life at all."

RELEASE THE EAGLE: A FABLE OF DISCOVERY
Paul Wendell Souder
"I can only imagine his look of amazement that day as his shovel opened the red hillside and a crystal glint first caught his eye. The shovel fell to his side. He knelt to examine the treasure, a clear stone, large as a cat curled in his arms. What will I do with this stone of great value?"

BEING A MISSIONAL CHURCH: IMPLICATIONS
FOR MENNONITE CONFERENCES AND CONGREGATIONS
James M. Lapp
"To take the great commission seriously will require a basic redefinition of who we are and readiness to address the various factors that make it hard for people from different backgrounds to be assimilated into the life of our denomination and our congregations. Many of our congregations have not yet faced this reality."

GOING HOME TO THE CITY
Jessica King
"I’ve heard that one of our biggest challenges in this new millennium is to turn geography into community. That’s what’s so amazing about what I’m finding in Pittsburgh."

ARTIST MYTHS AND BEYOND
Kara Hartzler
"Having spent the last three years in the secular art world, I’m beginning to realize how extremely rare it is to see an artist—particularly from the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition—who has not bundled his or her artistic talent together with a 'helping' profession."

Kingsview
MOVING INTO THIS NEW HOUSE
Michael A. King
"I confess to feeling a tingle in my spine to be able now, four years later, to welcome you simultaneously into this new house, DreamSeeker Magazine, as well as into that old room within it, a reawakened Kingsview."

Books, Faith, World & More
CONTEMPLATING THE SYSTEMATIC
ETHICS OF JAMES WILLIAM MCCLENDON JR.
Daniel Hertzler
"Then I found McClendon’s theology, which begins with ethics instead of the other way around. Maybe I could get into this."