“Every church a mission outpost.”Born in Iowa in the 20th century, Joseph D. “J. D.” Graber was both a product of the Mennonite Church of his time and a visionary who helped shape Mennonite identity and engagement with the world. Nearly two decades of work in India reinforced Graber’s commitment to missionary witness and convicted him of the need for new attitudes and approaches for a postcolonial era—including in North America, where Graber cultivated the idea tha...

Bruce Yoder’s thesis outlines his investigation of the dissociative chemisorption of methane (CH4) on a nickel single crystal. In this work Bruce uses a molecular beam and infrared laser techniques to prepare methane in excited rovibrational states. The excited methane molecules are aligned relative to the target nickel surface. Bruce describes the discovery and exploration of a previously unknown steric effect in the dissociation reaction between a vibrationally excited methane molecule a...

「如果人生可以重來，我想抱抱你，好好和你說再見。」一個以孩童純真眼光看待生離死別的動人故事獻給每一個曾歷經傷痛和失去的靈魂「等我有一天死掉，你會後悔莫及。」某天，哈利和姐姐吵架時脫口說出這句話；下一秒，他衝出家門，大貨車撞上他的腳踏車，他真的死了。死後，哈利抵達「異地」，等著前往「天藍色的彼岸」，卻因為仍有心事未了而遲遲無法前進。哈利多麼希望自己從沒說出那句氣話，他好想和姐姐說聲對不起，並和大家好好道別。不久，哈利遇到了一位身著古代服裝的小男孩亞瑟。亞瑟帶著他偷偷返回人間，尋找朝思暮想的家人和朋友……本書以孩童純真、清澈的眼光，探討生命的本質；以幽默而溫暖的文字，輕撫靈魂的傷口，喚起最真摯的愛的力量。-----------------在書中，「天藍色的彼岸」是死去靈魂的終結之處，也是新生命誕生的地方，只有那些完成「未了心願」、心中毫無罣礙的人能夠來...

Poiesis Review #1-5 is a collected archive of poems that comprises the first five issues of the print journal from 2008-2012, with poems dating as far back as 1991. The journal contains 119 poems in 164 pages of writing by 73 of the best poets in the independent press, including those at the turn of the new millennium.Poiesis Review is one of the only literary journals in existence that features a blend of today’s up-and-coming promising rookies alongside the stap...