| Laughter is Sacred Space: The Not-So-Typical Journey of a Mennonite Actor | View shopping basket |
| by Ted Swartz |
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| This book offers a glimpse into the journey of Swarz, a rare blend of actor, Mennonite and seminary graduate. Comedic soul mates, Swartz and Eshleman joined forces in 1987, on a chance encounter, eventually writing and performing faith-based, tongue-in-cheek plays seen all around the world. Follow along in this engaging memoir as Swartz finds his way as a middle child in a eastern Pennsylvania traditional Mennonite home in to his early work in the family butcher shop. Journey with Ted through the decision of uprooting his young family to attend seminary and then embracing life as a writer and actor. Get a glimpse into the friendship that led to the formation of the popular acting duo Ted & Lee. This uniquely honest backstage tour of an artist's life and mind combines side-splitting reminiscences, heart-rending accounts of loss, and touching stories of restored faith and love. Swartz's engaging humor blends with his own stories of triumph and tragedy, and helps readers understand their own sense of place and how they're shaped by those around them. Copyright 2012 MennoMedia | |
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| Tongue Screws and Testimonies: Poems, Stories and Essays Inspired by the Martyrs Mirror | View shopping basket |
| by Kirsten Eve Beachy, editor |
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paperback, 224 pages, $16.95
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| A refreshing, reflective, heartbreaking, humorous--and sometimes irreverent--anthology of poems, creative essays and fiction by new and noted authors with connections to the Anabaptist tradition. Featuring writers such as Rudy Wiebe, Di Brandt, Jeff Gundy, Jean Janzen, Julia Kasdorf, John Ruth, Rhoda Janzen and others, Tongue Screws and Testimonies shows how stories from the Martyrs Mirror intersect with the lives of writers and their characters--and how these stories continue to have a powerful hold on faith, life and imagination today. "Tongue Screws and Testimonies is for the young woman who remembers hiding behind the couch at her grandparents' house to look at Jan Luykens' engravings, and who still gets chills thinking about it. It's for the man who, drawn into a Mennonite congregation in middle age, is trying to get a grasp of Anabaptist history. It will serve as a conversation starter with theologians of many traditions who are concerned with the difficulties of living faithfully."--Kirsten Eve Beachy Copyright 2010 Herald Press | |
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| How Trees Must Feel: A Poetry Collection | View shopping basket |
| by Chris Longenecker |
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paperback, 98 pages, $18.95
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| Aiming to write for these who tell her "I don't like poetry, but I like what you write," Longenecker seeks to create poems that are textually accessible and often traditional in form yet (as her title poem signals) use the ordinary to convey the extraordinary. Copyright 2011 Cascadia Publishing House | |
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| Face to Face: A Poetry Collection | View shopping basket |
| by Julie Cadwallader-Staub |
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paperback, 96 pages, $12.95
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| In this riveting collection of poems, Julie Cadwallader-Staub invites the reader to experience the exquisitely tender as well as brutally difficult realities of living with someone dying of cancer. Face to Face honestly and gracefully describes her journey through the darkness of death and into the light of healing. Copyright 2010 Cascadia Publishing House | |
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| Face to Face: A Poetry Collection | View shopping basket |
| by Julie Caldwallader-Staub |
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paperback, 96 pages, $12.95
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| In this riveting collection of poems, Julie Cadwallader-Staub invites the reader to experience the exquisitely tender as well as brutally difficult realities of living with someone dying of cancer. Face to Face honestly and gracefully describes her journey through the darkness of death and into the light of healing. Copyright 2010 Cascadia Publishing House | |
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| Evening Chore | View shopping basket |
| by Shari Wagner |
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illustrated by John Domont, cover art paperback, 106 pages, $12.95
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| In Evening Chore, Wagner takes us with her to the far pasture, that borderland where
at dusk the known meets the unknown, where details are at once familiar and mysterious, where "a kill-
deer, plain-collared plover of open fields" circles above us, "with the pull of ocean in its flight." This
landscape is both personal and mythological, evoking those invisible connections that Wagner sensed from
her extended Mennonite family as well as from time spent in Kenya, Somalia, and among the Choctaw in
Louisiana. These connections bring together what are frequently viewed as opposites: nature and humanity,
the dead and the living, time and eternity, mythology, and truth. In recalling the haunting cry of the
muezzin from the mosque, the harmony of a cappella singing and the sure voice of the poet's grandfather as
he "shook the cows from the shadows," Evening Chore reverberates with "voices inside of
voices, / husks beneath husks." Copyright 2005 Cascadia Publishing House | |
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| The Coat is Thin | View shopping basket |
| by Leonard Neufeldt |
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paperback, 100 pages, $12.95
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| A collection of highly descriptive poems which comprises lyrical meditations, narratives, dramatic monologues, and verse essays. The first section draws strongly on memory in presenting the luminous immediacy of experiences with others and nature. Later sections turn to the Dutch-Russian Mennonites who influenced and shaped the poet; troubling issues of war, peace, and the exercise of power; and the possibilities in our time of living and writing with integrity. Copyright 2008 Cascadia Publishing Hosue | |
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| Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing | View shopping basket |
| by Jeff Gundy |
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paperback, 296 pages, $22.95
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| The first book-length treatment of the flowering of American Mennonite writing of the last two
decades, this book combines careful scholarship with Jeff Gundy's frank, sometimes sardonic, often funny,
deeply engaged commentary on Mennonite writing and culture. Walker in the Fog explores important
Mennonite and related authors-Patrick Friesen, William Stafford, Julia Kasdorf, Jean Janzen, Keith
Ratzlaff, and others-as well as crucial issues and themes, such as power and authority, myths of origin
and possibility, heresy and community. Walker combines revised versions of path-breaking critical
essays such as "Humility in Mennonite Literature" and "American Mennonite Poetry and Poets" with
Gundy's visionary and lyrical explorations of Mennonite writing and identity, including several chapters
written especially for this book "Do we all imagine that we have the clarity others lack, when in truth
we are all just walkers in the same fog?" Gundy asks. "We might then determine to listen to others' reports
of the weather and the landscape very carefully, to learn of that which is obscured in the fog from where we
walk, but clearer from another point of view." Copyright 2005 Cascadia Publishing House | |
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| Rhapsody with Dark Matter | View shopping basket |
| by Jeff Gundy |
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paper, 88 pages, $9.95
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| Poet Jean Janzen writes, "These vivid meditations call us to enter the whirl of our desires. With wit and passion, Jeff Gundy investigates our deep roots of longing--for God and the other. He offers an unforgettable ride." Here is a collection of poems for all lovers of fine poetry tinged with faith and honesty about doubt. | |
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| On the Cross: Devotional Poems | View shopping basket |
| by Dallas Wiebe |
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illustrated by John Leon paperback, 96 pages, $12.95
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| As Paul Friesen has written in regard to crosses he created for the United Methodist Church of
Hesston, Kansas, the poems in On the Cross are "not decorations, but for provocative meditation, inviting
you to confront Him who is Life, Light and Love." These poems—augmented by John Leon's line
drawings of the Cross based on Paul Friesen's crosses—fit into a long tradition of meditations on the Cross
articulated in poetry, prose, painting, music. Some of the most famous of the literary meditations are those
of St.John of the Cross, George Herbert, John Donne and Paul Gerhardt. The poems in On the Cross reflect
these earlier meditations as well as cite paintings by Matthias Grünewald, El Greco, Salvador Dalí, and
Giacometti. Music— Bach, hymns, gospel, folk—also enters the volume as a kind of meditation.
Readers are invited to read these devotional poems and then engage in their own meditations. The
poems in this volume are but the beginning of an approach to a symbol that leads up to the spiritual life that
begins in the teachings of Christ. Copyright 2005 Cascadia Publishing House | |
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| A Liturgy for Stones | Details... |
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| A Mennonite Woman's Life: Photographs by Ruth Hershey (1895-1990) | Details... |
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| Amish Children | Details... |
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| Amish Folk Artist Barbara Ebersol: Her Life, Fraktur, and Death Record Book | Details... |
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| Amish Roots: A Treasure of History, Wisdom, and Love | Details... |
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| An Amish Portrait: Song of a People | Details... |
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| Brandywine Critters: Nature Crafts from "A Brandywine Christmas" | Details... |
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| Empty Room with Light | Details... |
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| Fabric and Patterns: Portraits of Some Rural Kansas Mennonite | Details... |
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| Going Places | Details... |
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| I Saw God Dancing | Details... |
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| Menno Simons Portrait | Details... |
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| MennoFolk2: A Sampler of Mennonite and Amish Folklore | Details... |
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| MennoFolk: Mennonite and Amish Folk Traditions | Details... |
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| Mennonite Furniture: A Migrant Tradition (1766-1910) | Details... |
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| Migrant Muses: Mennonite/s Writing in the U.S. | Details... |
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| Miracle Temple | Details... |
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| Oracle of the Heart | Details... |
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| Piano in the Vineyard | Details... |
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| Prayers for a Treasured Child | Details... |
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| Quilts Among the Plain People | Details... |
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| Storage Issues: Poems 1988-2008 | Details... |
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| Tasting the Dust | Details... |
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| The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding | Details... |
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| The Mill Grinds Fine: Collected Poems | Details... |
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| Three Mennonite Poets | Details... |
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| Through a Lens Oblique | Details... |
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| Today Pop Goes Home | Details... |
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| War is a God That Demands Human Sacrifice | Details... |
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| Wayside Revelations | Details... |
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| Where We Start | Details... |