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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