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IN THIS ISSUE
Spring 2009, Vol. 9, No. 2
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EDITORIAL: AS THE
WORLD QUAKES
"We are living not in the soap opera of "As
the World Turns" but the real-life drama of a world quaking."
LETTERS
POETRY BY BARBARA
ESCH SHISLER
"I woke this morning / from a night of
obsessed dreams / longing for freedom."
POETRY BY ANN M.
SCHULTZ
"I was the doubter, but the others had /
Their reservations, too. . . ."
POETRY BY
ELIZABETH ANN RAID
"An Ohio child, a Minnesota mom, I’ve come
full bloom in Kansas."
Community
Sense
MONEYWISE
MEDITATIONS 2.0
Mark R. Wenger
"Here’s what seems to sum up John’s sage counsel: Strive to manage
finances carefully, embodying simplicity, frugality, and generosity
modeled on Jesus’ values, while living in community."
IT’S JUST A
PINEAPPLE
Kathleen Zehr Nussbaum
This lovely planned community wants to make sure everyone’s mailbox has
a pineapple on it.
Beneath
the Skyline
NEITHER A SAINT
NOR A CELEBRITY
Deborah Good
"My dad was neither a saint nor a celebrity, and he knew this about
himself."
The
Turquoise Pen
MY TRIP ON THE
SPACE SHUTTLE AND WHAT I LEARNED FROM IT
Noël R. King
"You should have seen how freaked out everybody got when they saw how
way off course we were."
Ink
Aria
STAMINA
Renee Gehman
"Stamina is the ability to knuckle down, buckle down, and to stay
knuckled and buckled down for an exceptional length of time."
WATER INTO WINE
Elaine Greensmith Jordan
"’I know why this church is going to hell, lady. It’s because of people
like you!’"
SHE CALLED ME
"SIR"
Starla J. King
"Yet I often dress like a guy. . . . But it doesn’t mean I don’t still
feel like a strong, confident, beautiful, sexy woman."
Reel
Reflections
THE SHADOW OF A
DOUBT: A FILM REVIEW
" 'Doubt' keeps you thinking, feeling,
deciding and, yes, doubting, from beginning to end."
David Greiser
Books, Faith, World & More
IN A WORLD OF POWER AND DOMINATION:
REVIEWS OF A
PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES, THE POWERS THAT BE,
AND OF HONEST PATRIOTS
Daniel Hertzler
"Wink observes that after it became official
under Constantine, ‘The church no longer saw the demonic as lodged in
the empire, but in the empire’s enemies.’"
Kingsview
WILL YOU HOLD ME
AS I HELD YOU?
Michael A.
King
"How can it be that we who held our
children, mentored them, provided for them (as best grass can), will
now be held by them?"
LOVE VERSUS GOD
Joe Postove
So we wait. And pray. Pray with the fervor
of God’s six-day creation. Of course Anne "will die."
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