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A Mennonite’s Kill Zone

Field Notes · From the March 2005 magazine

8. Every member of this family, before he plays, must read (or have read to him) Dr. Grebel’s article, “The Zwingli Factor: Boys, Video Games, and Violence—Catharsis or Trigger?”

9.What would you rather be: a martyr and peacemaker or a killer? See 7 (i).

10.If these rules are not obeyed, or if there is arguing around the games, or if you insist on regulating each other’s time, or if fists fly, you will have to read, over thirteen consecutive evenings, all 1,158 pages of The Bloody Theater or Martyrs Mirror of the Anabaptists or Defenseless Christians, by Thieleman van Braght.

Bergen is the author of The Case of Lena S. (McClelland & Stewart, 2003). His new novel, The Time in Between, will be published in the fall.

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