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Spring 2004, Vol. 4, No.
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Editorial
LET ME REPHRASE THAT. .
. .
Valerie Weaver -Zercher
"In many ways, ‘revision’
is what this issue of DreamSeeker
Magazine calls us to: the willingness to
literally re-view what we thought we knew
about our faith."
Response
A
VISION OF THE WEST
Alan Soffin
"No doubt the beauty of the East is
truth as well, but its truth is that of
opera while the West’s is of
chorale."
Letter
AN E-MAIL CONVERSATION
WITH SARA FRETZ-GOERING
"I just find it rather ironic that
you ask where the women writers are, but
send a rather cryptic message that really
there is no space for new writers unless
you know who we are."
POETRY
BY DEB LOGAN
"The dry leaf trembles on
the branch / With a rhythm of its own. .
. ."
POETRY
BY TINA BURKHOLDER
"I will offer you / Wrinkle-free
friendship."
POETRY
BY CHRISTINE R. WIEBE
"Tonight will be a sobering
night. / I have not been there yet. . .
."
THOSE
RESURRECTION WOMEN
Mary H. Schertz
"Even as I acknowledge the ongoing
need for the prophetic feminist witness,
I have come to the point of wanting to
embrace, once more, some of those
"dangerous" notions I once so
sweepingly rejected."
TAKE,
THIS IS MY BODY: SHARING IN A DIFFERENT
KIND OF POWER
J. Denny Weaver
"If Jesus’ death paid a debt
owed to God or was needed to restore
God’s order or honor, then those who
killed Jesus were the ones actually doing
the will of God."
WHY
BARABBAS?
Kenneth L. Gibble
"The crowd chose Barabbas because he
represented what they longed for. . . .
Jesus . . . was a big
disappointment."
Kingsview
ATHEIST AND BELIEVER
WALKING AS MYSTERY, TOGETHER
Michael A. King
"Rarely has a Christian writer
touched me more than Alan, unbelieving
soul-brother Alan, writing of the howling
each of us does in the dark, and of the
listening each of us at times fruitlessly
engages in, then observing that 'Here
Jesus stands and there, / As if to speak,
/ And Mary, gently, everywhere, / In
stone. . . .'"
Beneath the
Skyline
WORKING TOO MUCH
Deborah Good
"We aren’t all workaholics by
nature. What kind of world . . . would
let enough be enough?"
Community
Sense
WHERE DO WE LEARN
MARRIAGE?
Mark R. Wenger
"Faith communities are the
alternative extended family with the most
potential for maintaining and nurturing
marriage and family . . . today."
A
RESOURCE FOR DISCERNMENT: A REVIEW OF HOMOSEXUALITY:
BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION AND MORAL
DISCERNMENT
Ted Grimsrud
"Swartley seeks to combine
compassion with clarity about sexual
boundaries and our call to holy
living."
A
CONVERSATION WITH GOD ABOUT COFFEE
Laura Lehman Amstutz
"Me: ‘Could Jesus cure a
caffeine headache?’
"God: ‘I think that might be a
waste of Jesus’ gift, don’t
you?’"
Reel
Reflections
SEEING GOD IN ALL THE
WRONG PLACES: A REVIEW OF A
MATRIX OF MEANINGS
David Greiser
"For those with eyes to see, pop
culture reveals a generation fascinated
with the divine. On several levels,
movies lead the way in revealing
this."
Books,
Faith, World & More
THE SEARCH FOR A BETTER
WAY: REVIEWS OF ANABAPTIST
WAYS OF KNOWING AND
ANABAPTIST PREACHING
Daniel Hertzler
"Shenk perceives knowing as
something more than the accumulation of
facts. It is to have a perspective on
one’s own identity."
The
Turquoise Pen
FRIEND OF MINE FINDS
MARTIAN
Nöel R. King
"My friend Joanne discovered a
little Martian in her bathroom a few days
ago. At least that’s what she thinks
it is."
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