Foreword by Mary H. Schertz 9 Introduction by Keith Graber Miller and Malinda Elizabeth Berry 11 PART ONE: JOURNEYS WITH SCRIPTURE 1 Incorporating the Scriptures Bodily • 27 Yvonne Zimmerman 2 Playing in the Mud • 33 Chad Martin 3 Love, Peace, and Preconceptions • 39 Jill Landis 4 Traveling over Land, through Water, in the Spirit • 47 Bethany Spicher Schonberg 5 Claiming God’s Story as My Own • 56 Jeremy Garber 6 Seeking Faith and Yearning for Love Beyond the Boundaries • 62 Alicia Miller 7 Wrestling with a Perfect Jesus • 69 Sarah Kehrberg 8 He Will Baptize You with the Holy Spirit and with Fire • 76 Tasha Clemmer 9 “How Much Longer ’Til We Get There?” • 84 Jessica King 10 A Literary Skeptic’s Reading of the “Holy Text” • 90 Kevin Maness 11 Scriptural Threads in the Tapestry of Life • 92 Buffy Garber 12 Wrestling with the Book of the Unexpected • 102 Krista Dutt 13 My Journey with Sacred Texts, or How Mennonite Literature Changed My Life • 109 Daniel Shank Cruz 14 Theological Breakdown, Rebuilding, and Hope • 121 Benjamin Beachy 15 Weaving Yarns and Telling Sacred Stories • 127 Malinda Elizabeth Berry 16 Seeking Balance: Trusting in the Christ Behind the Scriptures • 136 Ryan Beiler PART TWO: RESPONSES TO THE JOURNEYS 17 On Observing Pilgrims • 147 Nancy Tatom Ammerman 18 Seeing Hope in Deconstruction and Rebuilding • 153 Pam Dintaman 19 Reading the Word and the World • 160 Valerie Weaver-Zercher Appendix A: Eating the Ancient, Brittle, Bitter Scroll: A Reading • 171 Krista Dutt Subject Index 175 Scripture Index 184 The Contributors 187
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