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Winter 2005, Vol. 5, No.
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Editorial
FEELING
AND LIVING GOD’S LOVE
Michael A. King
"It’s a delight to welcome
Renee Gehman . . . as DSM’s new
assistant editor."
LETTERS
POETRY
BY POLLY ANN BROWN
"’How do I learn to love
myself?’ / I knew Joe knew so I
asked him. . . ."
POETRY
BY ROSS BENDER
" once if I remember well / my
grandfather scolded me / only once —
/ he was dying of cancer. . . ."
POETRY
BY STARLA J. KING
"Always afraid the underside of
intense is / insane. . . ."
"JOE,
YOU ARE A MIRACLE"
Joe Fields
"The last time I attempted suicide,
I took all sorts of pills with bleach and
detergent mixed together. . . . The
doctor told me he had no idea how I had
lived through it. He said I was a
miracle."
BEYOND
DRESSING IN HOLY IMAGES
Polly Ann Brown
"Step by step I began to inch my way
toward my rightful place as a member of
the human race in a broken world, caught
with everyone else in a cycle of
woundedness. . . ."
Kingsview
SHIVERING TOWARD THE
LOVE OF GOD
Michael A. King
"God had loved him before . . . but
now he felt it in some fresh new deep
down way. . . ."
THE
ROWBOAT NEEDS BOTH OARS: DISCIPLESHIP AND
GRACE
C. Norman Kraus
"If one rows with the oar of faith
only, she goes in clockwise circles. If
one rows with the oar of works only, he
goes in counter-clockwise circles."
Ink Aria
SEEING SALT IN A
DIFFERENT LIGHT
Renee Gehman
"Does the salt analogy still apply
to Christians when we think of something
as being too salty? Can Christians be too
Christian?"
I
FLEW A LITTLE
Joyce Peachey Lind
"If I accomplished something, it was
fine to smile and say "Thank
you" when complimented—but
improper to tell how anyone how good I
felt about what I had done."
THE
DAY THEY ASK
Kirsten Eve Beachy
"Tell about: Growing up without
television and scared of movies, even
Bambi."
Reel
Reflections
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS
OF MEANING: A REVIEW OF "I ª
HUCKABEES"
David Greiser
"To get Albert in touch with his
anger, and to help him appreciate the
connectedness of all things, they zip him
into a body bag."
The Turquoise
Pen
ICING ON THE CAKE
Nöel R. King
"When she came home from work and
unlocked the front door to her house, her
key welcomed the lock and vice-versa. Her
pillows at night talked to her hair. Her
knees talked to her mattress and even
whispered sometimes over to the window. .
. ."
Beneath the
Skyline
WHERE DID I LEARN THAT
AN OUTSPOKEN WOMAN IS UNDESIRABLE? GENDER
MATTERS, PART 2 OF 2
Deborah Good
"Where did I learn to not only keep
some of my opinions inside, but also to
downplay my intelligence, my successes,
my skills as an
athlete?"
Books, Faith,
World & More
THE ONGOING STRUGGLE
AGAINST THE CORPORATE POWERS: A REVIEW OF
THREE BOOKS ON CONSUMERISM
Daniel Hertzler
"So the marketers target us with
messages of products purported to enhance
our lives. We are vulnerable. Yet . . .
we do have choices."
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