Circumstances Beyond Our Control

AcknowledgmentsI. Fire & ObsessionThe OceanGhost StoryThe Grown-up TrainAn Empty SuitExpulsionThe Snow QueenLife ForceHomage: NerudaOde to a BananaAfter Reading The Book of QuestionsVariations on Vallejo's ""Black Stone on a White Stone""Triangle Shirtwaist Factory FireTwo Twentieth-Century American MonologuesTed Bundy, Stalker RapistTexas Cheerleader Murder PlotFamous Last WordsEndymion and SeleneMy Funny ValentineTwo for Max EbertsBlue JayTrees in SpringtimeSan Miguel de AllendeII. a little light musicMemoryLife and LimbHeadlinesMiss PerfectoResponse to Barbara Walters' Most Fatuous QuestionSoliloquy of the Ethiopian EunuchIII. ritualsSunday RitualsTwo for Mister Roscoe""Arsh Potatoes""Grandfather's CarsTo a Schoolteacher Now DeadViewingTwo SonnetsHer Life at SevenChance EncounterDays of 1964The Ruined ManBucolicsMop and NestWisteria and FenceInsomniaTwp Adaptations from Red PineWaiting for a FriendParting from a Friend on a Night in SpringChristopher IsherwoodVita

""Martyrs Mirror has shaped the Anabaptist tradition more powerfully than any book besides the Bible... Like its subject material, Weaver-Zercher's book is both ambitious and impressive. It constitutes an overview-in-miniature of Anabaptist history. Weaver-Zercher's book is the invaluable latest entry in this ongoing and highly contested debate. Just as some ministers recommend that van Braght's text grace every household, Martyrs Mirror: A Social History belongs in the repertoire of all historically minded Anabaptists, a mirror from our troubled past onto this uncertain present.""