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From the ashes of a family fire, Aunt Amelia's voice rises-first desperate, then questing and sceptical, wondering where in the world to find God. She never dreamed she would follow a stranger far afield from her Amish cradle. But the voice of the Spirit called louder than tradition.

From Big Valley Pennsylvania to Virginia, to Florida, even Sarasota Mennonites could not keep her from the mesmerizing ministry of a fiery African American evangelist who finally settled in California. The first part of the book reflects her journey, her voice.

The second voice is that of her niece, poet Esther Stenson, who formed her own identity in places outside the safety of freundschafft and tradition-keeping her feet on the ground, with her ear turned spiritward and her eyes open in tenderness toward all things created.

Copyright 2009 Cascadia Publishing House

Copyright 2009 Cascadia Publishing House

Motion and rhythms and round words roll through the poems in Part 2, the more familiar hallmarks of Janzen's rumbling universe. She brings longing to every page, and then calls us in, gently, yet irresistibly. Among these 43 new poems are "skin and Air," "The Uprooting," "Lifting You," "Architecture of Falling," and "Holding On to the Walls."

Copyright 2008 Good Books

Copyright 2008 Cascadia Publishing Hosue

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

Grandparents will love to give this gem of a book, as will parents and special teachers. Prayers for a Treasured Child makes an exquisite gift of love or a heartfelt recognition of accomplishment.

The book is divided into eight sections: Searching, Loving, Pondering, Parenting, Celebrating, Grieving, Confronting, and Worshiping. Each section division is illustrated with pen and ink line drawings by Lynette Schroeder Wiebe, who also illustrated the cover. Foreword by Anna K. Junhnke.

Revised 2003.

Here Amish men and women speak. On America. The decline of the family. Health and home remedies. Farming. They offer three centuries' wisdom on issues ranging from raising a barn to raising children, from getting along with neighbors to breaking in a team of mules.

Copyright 1989 John Hopkins University Press

Copyright 2007 Herald Press

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