Autumn 2005
Volume 5, Number 4

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Autumn 2005, Vol. 5, No. 4
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Editorial
LIFE IS RICH AND PRECIOUS
Michael A. King
"Life throbs with moments to be savored, thoughts to be rolled carefully through the mind, relationships to be treasured."

LETTERS

POETRY BY ESTHER YODER STENSON
"The day Aunt Katie let my / tiny body fall back from / her arms with a jerk, / like a rag doll, / I cried all day like a knife / had done cut me through /
for good."

POETRY BY SHARI WAGNER
"My grandfather has climbed into his truck, / a rusty blue ford with a few stray / bales of hay bouncing like children / in the back."

REPORT FROM AMISH COUNTRY
Kirsten Eve Beachy
"Later comes a house on fire, the Hostetlers in Berks County, Pennsylvania, getting slaughtered in a raid during the French and Indian War. ‘Our ancestors!’ we say excitedly."

PARABLE OF THE RAW EGGS
Lauren D. McKinney
"’’Thanks, Ted! That was fun!’ I lied wildly. Praise should be heaped upon anyone making an effort to be creative with children’s time, short of using matches and lighter fluid to demonstrate a burning bush."

Community Sense
PAYING ATTENTION
"We live . . . with the illusion that we can expand our personal bandwidth, connecting to more and more. Instead we end up overstimulated, overwhelmed, and unfulfilled."
Mark R. Wenger

Ink Aria
PLANNING FOR SPONTANEITY
"There are those who are naturally spontaneous, while others (such as myself) need to have spontaneous activity practically forced on them through mockery and other methods of insult."
Renee Gehman

CHURCH AND POP CULTURE: OR WHY I READ HARRY POTTER
"In Harry Potter, as in the Christian story, good does defeat evil, but it is a long hard
battle usually championed by unexpected and sometimes unwilling people."
Laura Lehman Amstutz

The Turquoise Pen
JONNY COME LATELY
"He was scared silly that he would get trapped in his own stories, that his words would just drag him right in."
Noël R. King

Beneath The Skyline
SO WHAT DO YOU DO?
"Simple interactions with acquaintances and complete strangers have become challenging in a new way since my dad’s death."
Deborah Good

Reel Reflections
STRUGGLES OF A FLAWED SUPERHERO: A REVIEW OF "BATMAN BEGINS"
David Greiser
"Are good and evil powers ever absolute? Not in the ‘Batman’ world-view. . . . The evil that Batman would fight is not only external—it is within him as well.

Kingsview
ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND LOVING ENEMIES
"One response I’ve heard to this situation is that. . . . There is one big difference between our truth and theirs: ours is really right—and theirs is really wrong."
Michael A. King

Books, Faith, World & More
MENNONITE PEACE WITNESS, THEN AND NOW
Daniel Hertzler
http://www.CascadiaPublishingHouse.com/dsm/current/hertda.htm
"Driedger and Kraybill identify the issue which troubles the church today: how firm a position to take on peace and peacemaking when inviting people to membership."

THE MEETING OF BODY, SPIRIT, AND SOIL: A KINGDOM PARABLE
Darrin Belousek

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