What Mennonites Are Thinking 2001

by Good, Merle; Good, Phyllis Pellman

• ISBN13: 9781561483235
• ISBN10: 1561483230
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Good Books

Summary

Mennonites are increasingly engaged in the larger world these days. But they are still tormented by how to "be in the world, but not of it!"

These collections of Mennonite thinking by some of their most perceptive writers, poets, and sages is, above all, honest and, occasionally, wistful.

Includes fiction, humor, thoughtful essays about identity, book reviews, film capsules, and international features.

Table of Contents

Featured Articles, Essays, and Opinions, I	p. 3
A Retired Jesus?	p. 4
Thoughts on Finding a Home and Staying There	p. 9
What Makes a Mennonite Leader? One Ethiopian Mennonite's Point of View	p. 12
Creativity and Obstacles	p. 20
Naming Sin and Communicating Compassion	p. 27
Embracing the Struggle of Calling	p. 30
Pacifism--And Women's Self-Defense	p. 35
By Hook or By Crook, We Kept Christmas	p. 41
Shaken Security	p. 46
To the Mennonite Churches of the United States of America: A Message of Gratitude, Condolence, and Hope	p. 49
God's Spirit and a Theology for Living	p. 54
Short Fiction, I	p. 67
The Kiss	p. 68
Surprised	p. 75
By the Editors	p. 81
I. M. Good: Memories of My Father	p. 82
Tiny Tempest--Amish Quilts and the Color Guard	p. 87
Poetry, I	p. 91
Green Man in Good Neighborhood	p. 92
Table Prayer	p. 95
Rhapsody with Dark Matter	p. 98
What I Stole	p. 100
Markings	p. 103
The Amateur	p. 105
Featured Articles, Essays, and Opinions, II	p. 109
The Child Bride	p. 110
Confessions of a Hutterite Convert	p. 119
The Decade's Knowledge and the Ancients' Wisdom	p. 126
What I Can Do To Make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream Come True	p. 129
Common Tricks of the River	p. 131
Whole...and Single	p. 140
The Confession of a Pack Rat	p. 145
The Answer is Yes!	p. 152
A Word for Ethnic Churches	p. 157
Parables of the Kingdom and Other Faiths: How should Christians relate to people of other religions, or of no religion?	p. 160
A Sermon	p. 167
The Virgin and the Unicorn	p. 168
Humor	p. 175
Plain Dissy	p. 176
18 Politically Correct Put-Downs	p. 180
Lyrics in search of a Mennonite artist to complete--	p. 182
Testing Your Consensus Meter	p. 183
Short Fiction, II	p. 185
End of an Accident	p. 186
Moments	p. 190
Poetry, II	p. 209
Rain	p. 210
Claiming the Dust	p. 212
Today	p. 214
Sestina for Liars and Thieves	p. 215
Leadership #20	p. 217
Leadership #24	p. 218
My People	p. 219
A Longer Essay	p. 223
Community--Creating the Bond	p. 224
Book Reviews	p. 245
Women Without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War by Marlene Epp	p. 246
Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims by Howard Zehr	p. 251
God's Healing Strategy, An Introduction to the Bible's Main Themes by Ted Grimsrud and How to Understand the Bible by David Ewert	p. 253
Tasting the Dust by Jean Janzen	p. 256
The Hammer Rings Hope: Photos and Stories from Fifty Years of Mennonite Disaster Service by Lowell Detweiler	p. 259
Anabaptist Visions for the New Millennium: A Search for Identity edited by Dale Schrag and James Juhnke	p. 263
Calling God "Father": Essays on the Bible, Fatherhood, and Culture by John W. Miller	p. 267
Dangerous Elements and Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love by Sarah Klassen	p. 270
Film Ratings and Video Guide, 2001	p. 275
Our Sponsors	p. 285
Cumulative Indexes	p. 291
About the Editors	p. 301
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.