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Table of Contents

[Simply In Season Cover]

Foreword: Nancy Sleeth

Mennonite Central Committee Preface: Arli Klassen

Preface: Valerie Weaver-Zercher

Part 1: The Legacy of Living More With Less

  1. Living More with Less in Retrospect: Rachel Waltner Goossen
  2. You Wrote What You Lived: A Letter to My Mother: Cara Longacre Hurst with Marta van Zanten, Paul Longacre, and Nancy Heisey
  3. Introduction: Doris Janzen Longacre

Part 2: The Life Standards

  1. The Five Life Standards: Theology and Household Code: Malinda Elizabeth Berry
  2. Do Justice: Doris Janzen Longacre
    Guilt: Bringing Us to Our Knees: Hugo Saucedo
    Making Do: A Perspective from an Urban Dweller: Leonard Dow
  3. Learn from the World Community: Doris Janzen Longacre
    The Earth as Seen from Kaguya: Mitsuko and Yorifumi Yaguchi
    Celebrating the Fruit of the Mkhuna: Doris Dube
  4. Nurture People: Doris Janzen Longacre
    What If We Snapped Beans Together?: Dorcas Smucker
    Fragments from the Feast: Carol Penner
  5. Cherish the Natural Order: Doris Janzen Longacre
    Finding the Point in a Cornfield: David Kline
    How Many Chickens Can You Cherish?: Bethany Spicher Schonberg
  6. Nonconform Freely: Doris Janzen Longacre
    Experiments in Nonconformity: Aiden Enns
    Confident Enough to Be Compassionate: Nekeisha Alexis-Baker

Part 3: Living Testimonies

  1. Money and Stewardship: Beryl Jantzi
  2. Homes: Renee Holsopple Glick
  3. Homekeeping: Doris Janzen Longacre
  4. Gardens, Farms, and Markets: Greg Bowman
  5. Cooking and Eating: Mary Beth Lind
  6. Clothes and Bodies: Doris Janzen Longacre
  7. Transportation and Travel: Nancy and Robb Davis
  8. Recreation and Schedules: Doris Janzen Longacre
  9. Celebrations and Life Passages: Rebecca Seiling
  10. Technology and Media: Isaac Villegas
  11. Meetinghouses and Churches: Darren Kropf
  12. Strengthening Each Other and Organizing Communities: Sheri Hostetler

Afterword: A Generous Orthopraxy: Brian McLaren

Contributors and Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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