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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

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

Copyright 2011 Cascadia Publishing House

Copyright 2010 Cascadia Publishing House

Copyright 2010 Cascadia Publishing House

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

Copyright 2008 Cascadia Publishing Hosue

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

Here is a collection of poems for all lovers of fine poetry tinged with faith and honesty about doubt.

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