Short stuff

The spring 2007 issue of Direction (a semiannual publication of North American MB schools and conferences) is called “Reworking Our Traditions.” Articles include “How the Cross Saves” by Mark D. Baker, “Pietism’s Gift to Russian Mennonites” by Harold Jantz, and “Fault Lines in Evangelical Theology” by Gil Dueck and Doug Heidebrecht. (See Direction journal to order.) Douglas B. Miller of Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kan. has announced his resignation as Direction editor after 10 years in the role.

Ontario Mennonite writers and artists are invited to submit works for consideration for an Ontario issue of Rhubarb: The Magazine of New Mennonite Art and Writing. Direct inquiries to Margaret Loewen Reimer.

Confession is popular today, just not in church. The internet is filling the need to reveal wrongdoing and personal feelings, as millions share (or read) intimacies on MySpace, Facebook, and other confessional sites.

—David Briggs, beliefnet.com

Donald B. Kraybill’s The Upside-Down Kingdom, first published in 1978 by Herald Press, is being translated into its 7th language edition (German), and continues to influence a new generation of Christians in unusual places. For example, Kris Miller of the national office of Vineyard, USA in Sugar Land, Texas uses it with young adults, saying the Vineyard Movement “is waking up to further social and ecological dimensions of kingdom theology.”

—release