Contents
The Measure of My Days
Engaging the Life and Thought of John L. Ruth

Reuben Z. Miller and Joseph S. Miller

Foreword by Richard A. Kauffman 9
Editors’ Preface by Reuben Z. Miller and Joseph S. Miller 15
Introduction: A Charge to Keep, by John E. Sharp 17

1 Dreams of the Written Character
Julia Kasdorf 29

2 The Germ of Travel With a Purpose
Jan Gleysteen 38

3 United With the Song: Conversations with Alice Parker
Elmer S. Miller 55

4 If the Earth Is the Lord’s, Do We Have to Hate the World?
Musings on Mennonite People, Places, and Complexes
Jeff Gundy 69

5 Perspectives of an Outsider Looking In
Tony Campolo 85

6 Peace is in the Details: No Story is too Small
Elizabeth Morgan 96

7 The Meaning of "Mennonite"
Eloise Hiebert Meneses 108

8 A Meditation on the Necessity of Leaving Community
Joseph S. Miller 122

9 A Preacher’s Calling: For John Ruth, it Meant a Lot
Ervin Stutzman 137

10 Communion as a Gathered Body Or,
The Body of Christ, Mystical and Sacramental
John D. Rempel 151

11 Feed the Hungry and Run for Relief:
Mennonite Relief Sale as Folk Festival
Ervin Beck 164

12 Husk and Kernel: Anabaptist-Mennonite Essence Revisited
Leonard Gross 184

13 The Peculiar Beauty of Gelassenheit:
An Interview With Amos B. Hoover
Joseph S. Miller 201

14 Dancing on the Bridge:
Creating Virtual Community Through Mennonite Literature
Ann Hostetler 228

15 For Conscience’ Sake? Examining a Commonplace
John Richard Burkholder 240

16 An Instinct for Community
Reta Halteman Finger 258

17 Genius and the Verbal Dance: A Conversation
about Language, Writing, and Community with John Ruth
Julia Kasdorf 273

18 To Make One Story Out of Many Stories: The Local and the
Global in Church History
John A. Lapp 290

The Contributors 303
The Editors 308

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