Raylene Hinz-Penner
Raylene Hinz-Penner, North Newton (recently moved from Topeka, Kan.), is retired from teaching English and writing at Washburn University and Bethel College (18 years each). She has had poems published in magazines and anthologies, and is the author of the 2008 book Searching for Sacred Ground – The Story of Chief Lawrence Hart, Mennonite. Her current project is a manuscript of creative nonfiction titled East of Liberal – A Deep History of the Land.
Contributed Articles
June 27, 2022
Issue 2022, vol. 76
It is a drive I love, but today, one I have dreaded – going south to Oklahoma for the viewing and memorial service for Lawrence Hart, mentor, friend, nationally known […]
Read More about Losing Lawrence Hart (Feb. 24, 1933-March 6, 2022)
June 30, 2021
Issue 2021, vol. 75
A response to Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers (Cascade Books: Eugene, Ore., 2021) The brutal genocide of Native peoples is hard […]
Read More about History, accountability and healing
July 2, 2020
Issue 2020, vol. 74
Review of Joseph Gascho, Cornfields, Cottonwoods, Seagulls, and Sermons: Growing Up in Nebraska (DreamSeeker Poetry Series, Cascadia Publishing, 2019) This book of poems by a Mennonite cardiologist called to my […]
Read More about Snapshots of a boy’s life in Nebraska