IN THIS ISSUE
Winter
2009, Vol. 9, No. 1
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EDITORIAL:
EXPLORING THE MANSION
"I am shocked, often, at what I see in
blogs. . . . The writers in these pages do
better."
The Turquoise Pen
HENRY'S HOUSE
Noël R. King
"'This is my house,'" he declared,
"'and I am gonna live in it.'"
EPIPHANY
AND THE SILVER SCREEN
Alan Soffin
"His simple gesture is a gesture of respect,
all the greater for its unimportance. . . ."
POETRY
BY KEN BEIDLER
"She shows me little hills / Moles
made in her flower beds."
STUMPERS
Ken Beidler
"As we waited at a traffic light on a
bridge, my son asked me, 'What if the bridge fell
in the water?' . . .Well, there is the stumper
isn’t it!"
GOD'S
WAITING ROOM
Von Riege
"It all began when we had to move mother
into a facility that could better meet her care
needs."
LOVE
AS MY STRENGTH: A JOURNAL ENTRY
Andrew Moore
"Anything to escape the way I felt—I
wanted to feel dead so I wouldn’t have to go
any farther than just feeling dead."
SENTENCES
Jeremy Frey
"I find myself sentenced to die, for
life."
DOWN
THE LANE: REVISING A RITUAL, NIGERIAN STYLE
Brenda Hartman-Souder
"What matters at the end of the day . . . is
not so much what missionaries or development
workers do, but simply that they came. . .
."
POETRY
BY BRENDA HARTMAN-SOUDER
"My daughter leaned into me as / we
shared the tattered Hymns of Our Faith."
Ink Aria
HOW CREATIVE HOME MAINTENANCE
IMPROVED MY LIFE
Renee Gehman
"Frustration festered and ultimately brought
me to the point where I was compelled to inwardly
declare, This is ENOUGH!"
Reel Reflections
"RELIGULOUS"-PEOPLE OF
FAITH SEEN AS FISH IN A BARREL: A FILM REVIEW
Dave Greiser
"Maher may be well-informed and he is
definitely gutsy, but he is by no means
fair."
Books, Faith, World
& More
IF JEWS AND GENTILES COULD FIND
EACH OTHER: REVIEWS OF THE
JEWISH-CHRISTIAN SCHISM REVISITED, WHY THE JEWS
REJECTED JESUS, AND OF STATES
OF EXILE
Daniel Hertzler
"In the end he comes back to his opening
assertion that it was better for the world that
the Jews rejected Jesus."
Kingsview
MID-JOURNEY PARENTING
Michael A. King
"There can be more space to see our children
as the artwork they are once they leave
home."
POETRY
BY HELEN WADE ALDERFER
"'It is time to go,'" he
said."
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