Myths of origin and arrival -- Humility in Mennonite literature -- Voice and history in Patrick Friesen -- Almost one of the boys : marginality, community and nonviolence in William Stafford -- Beyond Dr. Johnson's dog : American Mennonite poetry and poets -- In praise of the lurkers (who come out to speak) -- Black coats, pig-headed fathers, and growing souls : some reflections on the figure of Harold Bender -- Invisible cities, facts of power, humility, fathers and mothers : Anabaptism, postmodernity, and Mennonite writing -- Story, mastery, gelassenheit, imagination, Eros : where do I surrender? -- Enigmas of embodiment in four books of poems -- If the earth is the Lord's, do we have to hate the world? -- What is it I know? : notes toward an embodied gnosis.