Fall 1995 · Vol. 24 No. 2

Working with Words

From the Editors: Working with Words

Jean Janzen

4

A Bad Investment: A Sermon

Laura J. Schmidt

5–9

Four Poems

Jean Janzen

10–13

Patricia Beach: A Short Story

Dora Dueck

14–22

Mennonite Brethren Women: Images and Realities of the Early Years

Katie Funk Wiebe

23–35

Early Missionary Society Activity among U.S. Mennonite Brethren Women

Valerie G. Rempel

36–46

The Gold behind the Paper Currency: Literature and the Christian College

Wilfred Martens

47–54

Hearing God's Word in the Silence: A Canonical Approach to 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

Jon M. Isaak

55–64

Literary Structure and Theology of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Three-fold Blessing

Mary Anne Isaak

65–74

Growing with the Seasons of Life

Katie Funk Wiebe

75–82

Katie, A Writer in Pilgrimage

Wesley J. Prieb

83–87

The Writings and Oral Presentations of Katie Funk Wiebe

David Giesbrecht

88–97

Current Research

Elmer A. Martens

98–99

Katie Funk Wiebe,

Prayers of an Omega

Elfrieda Nikkel

100–101

J. Howard Kauffman and Leo Driedger,

The Mennonite Mosaic: Identity and Modernization

Rick Schellenberg

101–2

Stan D. Gaede,

When Tolerance Is No Virtue: Political Correctness, Multiculturalism and the Future of Truth and Justice

Jay Beaman

102–4

Leo Driedger and Donald B. Kraybill,

Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism

Duane K. Friesen

104–6

Hugo Zorrilla,

Saint John of the Cross: From Anabaptist Spirituality

Bruce Entz

107–8

Marlin E. Thomas,

Resolving Disputes in Christian Groups

Gary L. Welton

108–9