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Autumn 2006, Vol. 6, No.
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Editorial
PORTENTS OF DOOM, WARBLERS OF HOPE
"Portents of doom surround us these
five years after 9-11. And warblers of
hope."
RESPONSE
BY LIARA COVERT
"In hindsight, I think Higher Forces
were giving me a wake-up call through
that accident."
POETRY
BY DARRIN W. SNYDER BELOUSEK
"At the muddied threshold of our
exposed lean-to, / huddled with other
hovels in the forsaken camp— / there
we sat down."
POETRY
BY DALE BICKSLER
"This place that owes its existence
to the beaver / Is best when seen alone /
With time to dawdle into the evening /
Till the Merlin comes to preen on the
gray dead tree."
SEEING
FEAR AND BEAUTY IN EMPTY SKIES
Steve Kriss
"Our willingness to make others live
in the same fear that we have tasted and
to experience the loss that we have known
is a strange and unusual desire."
Ink Aria
CROSSING TIME AND LIFE
ZONES
Renee Gehman
"I did warn MCC, noting in my
application essays and interview that
basically my personality appears to be
the exact opposite of what they are
looking for."
Beneath The
Skyline
LOOKING SWEATY AND A
LITTLE MUDDLED (AND WHY)
Deborah Good
"I wonder if walking a little more,
we might engage our streets, neighbors,
and foreign lands with a little more
personality and openness to the idea that
we might not, in fact, have the whole
picture."
Community Sense
WHY I STILL GO TO CHURCH
Mark R. Wenger
"I don’t go to church as a
concession to my employment situation. I
go because I want to. Here are some of my
reasons."
WHO?
ME? A FUNDAMENTALIST?
Katie Funk Wiebe
"Why am I still with a group in
which the voice of fundamentalism keeps
speaking?"
ENLIGHTENMENT
Elaine Greensmith Jordan
"’Are you kidding?’
Margaret bellowed when I told her my
decision. She stomped around the kitchen
in her enormous high-tops."
The Turquoise
Pen
OUT OF THE BLUE
Noël R. King
"Well, I saw a spaceship once, in a
movie when I was young. So I knew what it
was when I pulled up in front of my house
and there it sat, in the driveway."
Books, Faith,
World & More
NOT READING THE FUTURE
FROM THE BIBLE: REVIEWS OF _ON THE ROAD
TO ARMAGEDDON_ AND OF _IN GOD’S
TIME_
Daniel Hertzler
"In contrast to ‘popular
writers’ who see these books as
‘principally books of historical
foresight,’ he would go with those
who look into them for ‘theological
Kingsview
HONORING INSTEAD OF
INFLAMING YOU, THE TERRORIST OR MY SPOUSE
Michael A. King
"Because after our decades of
marriage she can fly across the blazing
desert of my war-mode mind with her own
Predator drones, she spies the shock and
awe I intend for her."
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