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IN THIS ISSUE
Autumn 2011
Vol. 11, No. 4
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EDITORIAL: MUNDANE DETAILS AS BIG PICTURES FRACTURE
"This DSM seems
not to provide so much an intentional bigger picture as to echo times
in which if we can grasp a bigger picture it seems to be the sense that
things aren’t entirely holding together."
POETRY
BY MONA JEAN HARLEY
"I knew that you would never call me again. / But there was no sting. .
. ."
Five Hours
East
ON APPLES AND ADJUSTMENT
Brenda Hartman-Souder
"Did
you know that green mangoes make a great apple pie or crisp? That guava
sauce goes perfectly with pork? That papaya can be diced . . . for a
sensuous salsa?"
Kingsview
THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES LOCKS IN
Michael A. King
"The living can feel the dead and the dead, I suspect, can touch the
living."
LESSONS IN TRAFFIC COURT
Joyce Peachey Lind
"It
was the highest fine I had heard all morning, and I figured she was
probably one of several people in the room whose hardships in life had
just been compounded. . . ."
Reel
Reflections
"MIDNIGHT IN PARIS": A FILM REVIEW
Dave Greiser
"'Midnight in Paris'" contains all of Allen's perennial themes, save
his preoccupation with God."
Beneath the
Skyline
GOODBYES
Deborah Good
"I
like the Buddhist concept of impermanence--that life is in constant
flux, that who we are in one moment is different from who we will
become in the next."
Books, Faith,
World & More
A TESTIMONY OF THREE THEOLOGIANS:
A REVIEW OF THE
PRIESTLY KINGDOM, OF
HANNAH'S CHILD, AND OF OUT OF BABYLON
Daniel Hertzler
"Brueggemann
makes effective use of the prophets and the Jews as models for the
church using the same . . . source as Yoder and Hauerwas."
The Turquoise
Pen
MY BEST FRIEND SUZY
Nöel R. King
"I walked straight up to her and said, 'Suzy, are you an alien?"
RETHINKING HOLY LAND: ENGAGING JESUS AND THE LAND,
BY GARY M. BURDGE
Marlin Jeschke
"Abraham
is a godly exemplar of how to possess land. But in the conquest under
Joshua and later under the kings of Israel, Abraham's descendants
desecrate the land. . . ."
POETRY BY JULIE CADWALLADER-STAUB
"I
remember how we six sisters / would recruit a few boys from the
neighborhood. . . ."
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