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Spring 2003, Vol. 3, No.
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Editorial
A DSM FOR EXPLORERS AND
HOMEMAKERS
"What you believe must be done to
right the wrong is what I see as the
wrong against which I must testify. . . .
Let DSM be a place where explorers and
homemakers, like the lion and the lamb,
can lie down together. . . ."
RESPONSE
BY J. RON BYLER
"Could it be that Michael has
settled for feelings of anger when he
could take more meaningful steps toward
change or correcting his own
misperceptions?"
LETTERS
BY JIM HESS AND DOROTHY CUTTRELL
POETRY
BY SHARON JANTZI KRAYBILL AND JULIE
GOCHENOUR
BY CHERYL DENISE
BY ANN HOSTETLER
A
CITIZEN'S RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL
SECURITY STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
Wendell Berry
"The rule of law in the world, then,
is to be upheld by a nation that has
declared itself to be above the law. An
apparently childish hypocrisy here
assumes the dignity of a nation's foreign
policy."
FOLLOWING
WENDELL BERRY, RELUCTANT PROPHET
Marshall V. King
"In his thinking farmer way, Berry
debunked the rational mind. . . . He
prefers to approach living with a
sympathetic mind, one that still values
faith, loyalty, and, above all,
love."
THERE'S
A PASTOR IN THE WOMEN'S RESTROOM!
Sandy Drescher-Lehman
"As one of my friends said when I
was preparing to preach, 'I was praying
that God would give you a shot of
testosterone, but what we really need is
some mother's milk.'"
Books,
Faith, World & More
THE SPIRITUALITY OF
GEOGRAPHY: REVIEW OF DAKOTA,
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS
Daniel Hertzler
"Kathleen Norris has gone into the
wilderness and come back. She tells her
experience by stages in Dakota."
BODY
IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
Karen Jantzi
"I was never able to completely
ignore my body's response to color and
texture, flavor and smell, movement and
sound. I felt out of place, uncomfortable
in church settings."
SHOULD
BELIEVERS CHURCHES TAKE UP LITURGICAL
CONFESSION OF SIN?
Marlin Jeschke
"Perennial confession of sin without
a commensurate recognition of the
considerable extent to which we do not
commit sin in our lives is
psychologically unhealthy."
THROUGH
TURMOIL, CHAMBER, AND LOVE: WHEN DEATH
ANNOUNCES ITS NEARNESS, PART II
Evelyn King Mumaw
"They come-young and old-on foot and
in wheelchairs, from various walks of
life, the obviously privileged and
underprivileged, and the turbaned ones
who shrink from exposing their hairless
heads."
Marginalia
IN A COMPROMISING
POSITION
Valerie Weaver-Zercher
"I'm still trying to figure out this
whole business of fear. I'm accustomed to
looking at fear as something to be
overcome, not something to
befriend."
Reel
Reflections
ON BEING MALADAPTED: A
REVIEW OF "ADAPTATION"
David Greiser
"What do living organisms do to
thrive in the real world? How do we
adapt? One critic suggested that to watch
the film 'Adaptation' is to become
personally involved in the challenge of
its creation."
Kingsview
BECOMING DEAR FRIENDS:
HONORING YOUR STANCE AND MINE IN THE BODY
OF CHRIST
Michael A. King
"If we saw each other as friends,
then prejudices we treated as reasons for
splitting we might instead see as dear to
us."
The
Turquoise Pen
A PLANE STORY
Noël R. King
"'What's the big deal? So we never
left the ground. So what?' responded a
harried-looking businessman rushing to
his next gate. 'A flight's a
flight.'"
POSTSCRIPT: MARCH 19-31,
2003
Michael A. King
"Finally on March 19, 2003, as DSM
went to the proofreader, the United
States of America, fatefully implementing
the policy of preemptive war Wendell
Berry opposes in the lead article (pp.
5-17), went to war against Iraq."
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