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Winter 2004, Vol. 4, No.
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Editorial
BUT WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?
"So where are the women writers? Are
they perhaps still less likely than men .
. . to claim their rightful public
voices?"
LETTER
BY AUDREY METZ
"Thanks again for the wonderful
article. I do hope Jack Kerouac shared it
with Jesus Christ—or vice versa.
I’ll bet they had a laugh or two as
they remembered the trip."
POETRY BY DAVID WRIGHT
"Early mornings I navigate
sleep’s shore, / almost land, until
a delinquent dream / appears like a
watery hand. . . ."
POETRY
BY ALAN SOFFIN
"No longer / Do we see the dead. /
No airport services for those / Who died
for us. . . ."
A
WAR CHILD
Robert Rhodes
"’Someone has to go and rescue
Hassan,’ she insisted. ‘You
have to go and bring him here to live
with us.’"
Beneath the
Skyline
SEEKING JOURNEY, MAKING
HOME: A GLIMPSE OF YOUNG ADULTHOOD
Deborah Good
"My friends . . . and I write emails
and talk on the phone. . . . We visit
each other regularly. . . . This may
sound like fun, but it also leaves me
feeling untethered, scattered,
homeless."
AN
EXIT OR AN EXODUS? A QUEST FOR GOD AMID
DOUBT
Mel Leaman
"Frederick Buechner suggests that
‘doubts can be the ants in pants of
faith.’ My belt had already loosened
and I feared my pants were about to
fall."
A
FEW WORRIES ABOUT BEING A POET
David Wright
"To be anxious and to pray both
require that we be able to project
possibility beyond any given choice.
Perhaps the most worried among us may be
the most imaginative. . . ."
THE
TALE OF A STORYTELLER'S CALLING
Joy Swartley Sawatzky
"The question has always been the
same: How do we know what is right for us
at any given time?"
EXPLORING
ISLAM AND THE CLASH WITH THE WEST: REVIEW
OF THE CRISIS OF
ISLAM
Marlin Jeschke
"Reflective Middle Easterners have
vacillated between two questions: Who did
this to us? and Where did we go
wrong?"
Books,
Faith, World & More
THE PROBLEM OF VIOLENCE:
REVIEW OF THREE RESPONSES
Daniel Hertzler
"The typical question, of course, is
whether nonviolence ‘works.’
Nagler challenges the old chestnut which
holds that violence is necessary because
only violence works."
HOW
WE COPE: A NEW YORK MINUTE
Cynthia Yoder
If I didn’t have a son at home,
waiting in his blue and red train pajamas
to kiss me goodnight, I’d run clear
out into the yard.
The
Turquoise Pen
THE POWER OF WORDS,
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE NOT THERE
Nöel R. King
"The words themselves had . . . .
been withdrawing of their own accord,
gathering beyond time and space."
Reel
Reflections
FAR SIDE OF THE MODERN
WORLD: REVIEW OF "MASTER AND
COMMANDER"
David B. Greiser
"Both the battle sequences and the
conversations serve as commentaries on
the modern view of the world."
Kingsview
THE DREAMY DRAW
CONVERSATION
Michael A. King
"Just as I reached the end of the
short path leading down to the bench on
the outcropping, the hiker reached me. As
he moved to pass me, he said, 'All
mine?'"
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