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Mennonite Church USA 1303finalwads2:TM Redesign template 2/23/2010 1:03 PM Page 1 INSIDE: • God’s realm in and among us • Inattention blindness • The Word in worship • The cost of medicines • Editorial: God’s avatar 1303finalwads2:TM Redesign template 2/23/2010 1:03 PM Page 2 LETTERS The Joining together, Investing in hope campaign: A foundation for the future of Mennonite Church USA Together we can strengthen connections with young leaders, build sustainable, low-cost offi ce space, and declare that we believe in the future of Mennonite Church USA. To fi nd out how you can join us, visit www.MennoniteUSA.org/JoiningTogether or call 1-866-866-2872. 2 TheMennonite | March 2010 | www.themennonite.org 1303finalwads2:TM Redesign template 2/23/2010 1:03 PM Page 3 March 2010 | Volume 13, Number 3 CONTENTS 12 Whispers of resurrection —Isaac Villegas 16 Up, out, down —Lisa Schirch 19 The Word in worship —Christine Longhurst 22 A paracosmic millennium —Myron S. Augsburger 26 God’s realm in and among us —Barbara Esch Shisler 29 The cost of medicines —Glen E. Miller 32 My testimony —Joan Hershberger 39 A nurse describes her two weeks in Haiti —Anje Ackerman Cassel 41 Board considers conflict needs —Anna Groff 46 Survey: more women in leadership but still not enough —Joanna Shenk 49 Mennonite artist creates icons —Anna Groff 51 Burkholder’s dissertation ‘all but banned’ —Everett J. Thomas 52 Pastors let the Bible ‘read them’ at AMBS —Mary E. Klassen 32 9 DEPARTMENTS d 4 Letters 39 News 6 Grace and Truth 54 For the Record 7 Poetry 57 Classifieds 8 News Briefs 58 New Voices 10 Miscellany 59 Mediaculture 39 12 Features 61 Puzzle 36 Leadership 63 Mennonite Church USA ON THE COVER: Sculpture of Mary Magdalene by Bruce Wolfe. Photo by 37 Real Families 64 Editorial Brian Mahany. 38 Opinion March 2010 | TheMennonite 3 1303finalwads2:TM Redesign template 2/23/2010 1:03 PM Page 4 LETTERS LETTERS March 2010 | Volume 13, Number 3 The Mennonite is the official publication of This publication welcomes your letters, God wants us to go. Such disciplines Mennonite Church USA, which established three either about our content or about issues as prayer, fasting and charity serve to purposes for the magazine: to provide a forum facing the Mennonite Church USA. remind us that, while our direction is for the voices within the denomination, to not always clear, it is nonetheless pos - promote the ministries within Mennonite Please keep your letter brief—one or two Church USA and to offer an editorial voice paragraphs—and about one subject sible to know that we are moving in distinct from but collaborative with other only. We reserve the right to edit for the right direction. That’s because this leadership voices. The Mennonite (ISSN 1522- length and clarity. Publication is also sub - journey is for us just as it was in the 7766) is published on the first Tuesday of each beginning—a gift of grace. Of course, month by the board for The Mennonite, Inc. ject to space limitations. Send to let - Periodicals Postage Paid at Goshen, IN 46526 [email protected] or mail to Jesus never promised his disciples a and at additional mailing offices. Subscription Letters, The Mennonite, 1700 S. Main St., life free of trial. But we do share in his rates for one year: $43.95 to U.S. addresses and Goshen, IN 46526-4794. Please include promise to those early disciples, the $51.45 USD to Canadian addresses. Group rates promise that as long as we follow in available. The views expressed in this your name and address. We will not print publication do not necessarily represent the letters sent anonymously, though we his steps, we will never be alone. Cer - official positions of Mennonite Church USA, The may withhold names at our discretion. tainly one significance of Lent is an Mennonite, or the board for The Mennonite, Inc. —Editors opportunity to rediscover the promise Scripture references are from the New Revised for ourselves.— Jonathan Emerson- Standard Version unless otherwise noted. Pierce, Markham, Ontario Lent reorients us POSTMASTER send form 3579 to: The Mennonite We are near the beginning of Lent, the 1700 S. Main St., Goshen, IN 46526 season of the church year commemo - How could they do such a thing? rating Jesus’ journey to the cross. I appreciated Marilyn Miller’s column STAFF Scripture tells us that Jesus’ journey “Blemished Lambs at the Altar,” (Jan - Editor: Everett J. Thomas uary). It was concise and well-written. [email protected] was from the beginning. Building on Associate Editor: Gordon Houser the Old Testament, the Gospels de - Although I read the column the day [email protected] scribe how Jesus’ life began in heaven The Mennonite came, I didn’t write Assistant editor: Anna Groff and his life on earth as an infant—as until today because of my pain. For I [email protected] was one of those, “How could they do Advertising, subscriptions: Rebecca Helmuth well as a refugee in Egypt. Once his [email protected] ministry began, he traveled through - such a thing.” Along with many other Bookkeeper: Celina Romero out Galilee, then through Judea and young girls, I was abused by a man in Editorial assistant: Nora Miller finally to his awaiting cross in my home church in Pennsylvania. For Design: Dee Birkey Jerusalem. To be a Christian is to fol - many decades, he abused young girls WEB SITE www.themennonite.org low Jesus in this way. When Jesus in - and women. How could this be al - vited a group to be his first disciples, it lowed? It took many of us brave OFFICES women to stop this abuse. 1700 S. Main St. was to join him on this journey. Goshen, IN 46526-4794 Annually, Lent affords us this op - Now I am in my 60s. I remember a phone: 800-790-2498 portunity afresh and in our own time. terrible encounter when I was nine. fax: 574-535-6050 We journey the 40 days toward the Although spoken to several times over 722 Main St. Easter celebration, when all our hopes the years, this man was just disci - Newton, KS 67114-1819 for salvation are realized as one peo - plined several years ago. My pastor, phone: 866-866-2872 here in Pigeon, Mich., Scot Wilson, fax: 316-283-0454 ple. For the Christian, salvation hope always includes both body and soul. and his wife, Sharon, have been a 801 N. Negley Ave. Thus, the Lenten disciplines designed great help. Before Pastor Scot came, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 pastor Jay Miiller helped me start talk - phone: 412-894-8705 to connect us with Christ encompass fax: 412-363-1216 the essence and totality of our exis - ing about my broken past. tence. They are three: prayer (God-di - Like Marilyn Miller says, we need rected), fasting (self-directed), charity to stop being quiet when treated un - (other-directed). justly.— Gloria Swartzendruber, The annual season of Lent is to Pigeon, Mich. Mennonite help us refocus ourselves for a Lenten Church journey that lasts a lifetime. How justify special privileges? USA This annual reorientation is espe - You obviously put a lot of good work cially important because we do not al - into Church Education Sunday theme ways know what God wants us to do section (January). My concern is that next on this journey or even where it offers almost no sense of our educa - tional institutions having ties with 4 TheMennonite | March 2010 | www.themennonite.org 1303finalwads2:TM Redesign template 2/23/2010 1:03 PM Page 5 LETTERS Mennonite-related schools in other yet three paragraphs later she asks around is that of “fully divine/fully parts of the world. I know this is Men - Germanic Mennonites to put aside human.” How could that be? What nonite Church USA. But how impor - theirs. would it be like? It seems to me that tant should we make our national I am similar to Janet: a second-gen - Jean has accepted well the “fully di - boundaries when we pray for Men - eration Italian Catholic “converted vine” in Jesus but has not adequately nonite educational efforts, and to what Mennonite Christian, passionate, pur - grappled with the “fully human.” extent can we justify the special privi - pose-driven lover of Jesus, beautiful” The whole wonder of the incarna - leges we have in our small, insulated Italian woman. tion is that our God, omniscient, om - and privileged part of the globe? I was drawn to the Mennonites by a nipotent and omnipresent, was willing The cost of educating one U.S. An - Southern Baptist convert who in turn to limit that power at a particular time abaptist disciple from kindergarten to was drawn by a Chinese Mennonite. and place within a human being. God college is simply astronomical as com - There are Mennonites all over the was willing to do that out of great love pared with, for example, the Meserete world who owe their beginnings to the for us, in order that we might be able Christos Church of approximately the study and insights of a Dutch Catholic more fully to understand God’s same size in Ethiopia. priest, Menno Simons. marvelous plan and what it meant to Encouraging our schools to de - Despite our faith’s Germanic roots, live that plan out according to God’s velop fraternal partnerships with sis - I doubt our Chinese or African Men - intention on this earth. ter colleges and seminaries around nonite brothers and sisters would I see in the Gospels that Jesus ac - the world might make us look bad (as apologize for or consider setting aside cepted that limitation.
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