Watch for these
Forthcoming Books from
Cascadia Publishing House, LLC
(Arranged roughly in order of expected release date)

Books are slated for release in 2008 or beyond, as noted. Copublication by Herald Press of most books listed will be pursued but is not confirmed and occasionally may not be forthcoming, if so noted. Any books marked DSB are released by Cascadia Publishing House/Pandora Press U.S. under the DreamSeeker Books imprint. Titles are tentative and may change before publication.

The Work of Jesus Christ in Anabaptist Perspective: Essays in Honor of J. Denny Weaver, ed. Alain Epp Weaver and Gerald J. Mast (Spring 2008). "Running through many of these essays are issues and questions familiar to readers of J. Denny Weaver’s theological work: the role of language and narrative in the work of salvation, the power of the resurrection over the forces of sin and death, interconnections between Christology and ecclesiology, and the relationship between the body of Christ and the body of the world. The book will no doubt be responsible for many contentious conversations, since it embodies the conflicted and controversial theological terrain J. Denny Weaver takes great delight in exploring together with his interlocutors." —Gerald J. Mast, in the Introduction

The Coat Is Thin, poems by Leonard Neufeld, DreamSeeker Poetry Series 5 (DSB, Autumn 2008).

Loving Enemies: Lessons from the Bible, Jesus, the Early Church, and Peacemakers, Randy Klassen (Autumn 2008). "One cannot read Loving Enemies without examining one's own attitude and actions in connection with the stated goals of nonviolence and universal world peace. While some readers will consider the authors naïve, or at best unrealistic, one cannot deny the truth of the global need for a more peaceful world."—Lou Perry, President Emeritus, Whitman College

Like Those Who Dream: Sermons for Salford Mennonite Church and Beyond, 1992-2006, James C. Longacre (Winter 2009). "We who listened for fifteen years will easily recall a favorite phrase, the themes of the faith. . . . Next to that word came the repeated reminder that we were dealing with a 'text.' It was Jim’s joy to let the ancient Word speak. He reads the letter carefully, but listens beyond it to the canon-broad 'music' of the Scriptures. What was humorously said of an old Franconia bishop—'He had one text—the whole Bible'—could be said in appreciation of Jim’s range. A further compliment to the same rustic church servant applies equally to Jim’s preaching: Er is’ bei’m Watt gebliwwe—'He stuck by the Word.'" —John L. Ruth, in the Introduction

Dining Room Activism: A Daughter's Conversations with an (Extra)Ordinary Dad (working title), Deborah Good (DSB, Winter 2009). In this unique and compelling memoir, the voice of a well-loved father intertwines with that of his twenty-four-year-old daughter, as he fights the ravages of a cancer that eventually takes his life.

Grist for the Mill: Collected Poems, Helen Wade Alderfer (DSB, Winter 2009).

Doves to Hawks: How the Assemblies of God Lost Its Peace Stance (working title), Paul Alexander (Winter 2009). "The first time I read this manuscript it shocked me. It still shocked me when I read this final, revised version a few years later. The anti-war, Christian, pacifist sentiments of the Assemblies of God that Paul Alexander describes in chapters three and four juxtaposed in close proximity to their pro-war and anti-pacifist passion and identification with America in chapters six and seven is simply striking. It should get any reader’s attention. The plot line of Doves to Hawks: How the Assemblies of God Lost Its Peace Stance exposes the transition from one to the other of these contradictory stances within the space of three or four short decades." —J. Denny Weaver, in the C. Henry Smith Series Editor's Foreword

Christians Engaging Culture: A Better Way, ed. Harold Heie and Michael A. King (2009). Rejecting both withdrawal from culture and confrontational approaches to culture, this book calls for a better way—engaging others by coming alongside them, building relationships of mutual trust. The effectiveness of this better way is illustrated by means of eight actual case studies in which Christians have redemptively engaged others in the areas of politics, environmental public policy, film production, the academy of scholars, church discussions of homosexuality, conflict transformation, and interfaith dialogue.

Miracle Temple, poems by Esther Stenson, DreamSeeker Poetry Series 6 (DSB, 2009 or 2010).

Storage Issues, poems by Suzanne Miller, DreamSeeker Poetry Series 7 (DSB, 2009 or 2010), "who is by my lights perhaps the best poet publishing mainly in church journals." —Jeff Gundy, Walker in the Fog

A Mennonite Woman: Patterns of the Spiritual Life, Dawn Ruth Nelson (2009 or 2010). "My grandmother was named Susan Alderfer Ruth. She was born in 1909 and died in 2005. In those years, in an area just north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she led a life representative of what a certain kind of Mennonite spirituality was then and some Amish spirituality remains today. In 2001, I decided to talk to her and determine what formed her spiritually. I felt I could generalize from her life—discover practices in her life that would help me get at the core of Mennonite spirituality and spiritual formation in the twentieth century." —Dawn Ruth Nelson, from Chapter 1

Many other volumes are in earlier stages of development. As they reach the stage of formal production, they too will be added to this list, providing a preview of forthcoming books four-twelve months ahead of publication.

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