New Releases from
Cascadia Publishing House LLC

Unless otherwise indicated, all books listed are copublished with and available from Herald Press, including toll-free 1-800-245-7894. Books marked DSB are released by Cascadia under the DreamSeeker Books imprint. Listed in order of publication date, most recent releases first.

Also browse the complete list of our titles at the Cascadia/Amazon.com Bookstore. See all our books at a glance in a Cascadia-hosted storefront and simultaneously use Amazon.com's order-processing capabilities and secure servers.

Continuing the Journey: The Geography of Our Faith, ed. Nancy V. Lee, ACRS Memoirs 2 (Nov. 2009). Some stories are boldly told, others with a measure of reticence. Some are scholarly, many informal. There is no one road ‘most traveled’ in these memoirs, no one pattern. . . . Among the riches you can claim in this book are the ways these thinkers dealt with change in the Mennonite church, change in themselves, and change in society." —Katie Funk Wiebe

Making Sense of the Journey: The Geography of Our Faith, Cascadia edition, ed. Robert Lee Nancy V. Lee, ACRS Memoirs 1 (Dec. 2009). The Mennonite writers of this book (which preceded Continuing the Journey, see above) were Depression-era babies who amid experiencing World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, and the Cold wars, helped Eastern Mennonite College (now University) and North American Mennonites develop more global perspectives and commitments. Authors include Esther K. Augsburger, Myron S. Augsburger, Titus W. Bender, James R. Bomberger, Gerald R. Brunk, Ray Gingerich, Samuel L. Horst, Albert N. Keim, C. Norman Kraus, Nancy V. Lee, Harold D. Lehman, John R. Martin, Paul Peachey, Calvin W. Redekop, Calvin E. Shenk. "Life is a mystery, and the best memoirs reflect that mystery. Good lives are those which bring hope and courage in the midst of that mystery. This book reflects that struggle," says Albert N. Keim, in the Introduction This volume, a Cascadia republication of the original Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society edition, is copublished with ACRS as well as Herald Press.

Miracle Temple, poems by Esther Stenson, DreamSeeker Poetry Series 6 (DSB, 2009). "Stenson’s structure opens up these poems, allowing Amelia's voice to be sustained and her story to come through clearly, yet Stenson’s own voice and perspective establish themselves in the second part of the book. A beautiful and worthwhile book." —Jeff Gundy

Ask Third Way Café: 50 Common and Quirky Questions About Mennonites, Jodi Nisly Hertzler (Autumn 2009). "Some of Hertzler’s answers are little tweets while others flow in succinct paragraphs, but regardless of length, they quickly capture Mennonite views on many things." —Donald B. Kraybill, in the Foreword

A School on the Prairie: A Centennial History of Hesston College, 1909-2009, John Sharp (Autumn 2009). "Brimming with personalities, landscape, dreams, and issues, this account of what for a decade was the largest ‘Old’ Mennonite college vividly connects the dots in a century-spanning picture. —John. L. Ruth

Theology as if Jesus Matters: An Introduction to Christianity's Main Convictions, Ted Grimsrud (Autumn 2009).

Defenseless Christianity: Anabaptism for a Nonviolent Church, Gerald J. Mast and J. Denny Weaver (Summer 2009). "I've been reading with interest the important work being done by Denny Weaver and others on violence in relation to our understandings of God, atonement, and eschatology. I've also been watching, with joy, the growing rediscovery of the nonviolent heritage of the Radical Reformation. So I enthusiastically await the release of Defenseless Christianity." —Brian D. McLaren, Author/Activist (brianmclaren.net)

Mutual Treasure: Seeking Better Ways for Christians and Culture to Converse, ed. Harold Heie and Michael A. King (Spring/Summer 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.

A Hundred Camels: A Mission Doctor's Sojourn and Murder Trial in Somalia, Gerald L. Miller with Shari Miller Wagner (DSB, Spring 2009).

You Never Gave Me a Name: One Mennonite Woman's Story, Katie Funk Wiebe (DSB, Spring/Summer 2009). "But I’m not just interested in my family roots experience of writing this autobiography has been an invigorating highlight of my life as I reviewed the past, and found new understandings of my roots, early environment, and their contribution to the making of Katie Funk Wiebe, author of many books and other writings. Other girls could be Kay, Kae, Katherine, Kathryn, Kathleen, Kaylene, and Kathy. The name Katie might have been the name of a peasant in the Ukraine. Now it is my name. I wear it proudly." —Katie Funk Wiebe, in the Preface

A Persistent Voice: Marian Franz and Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation, Marian Franz with Tim Godshall (Spring 2009). "Marian Franz had the intellectual vision and political courage to seek to change the conventional wisdom. Her gentle daring and humble boldness live on in these powerful essays." —Ronald J. Sider, President, Evangelicals for Social Action

Long After I'm Gone: A Father-Daughter Memoir, Deborah Good with Nelson 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.

Like Those Who Dream: Sermons for Salford Mennonite Church and Beyond, 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

118 Days: Christian Peacemaker Teams Held Hostage in Iraq, ed. Tricia Gates Bown, copublished with Christian Peacemaker Teams (DSB, Winter 2009). In November 26, 2005, Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) members Tom Fox and Jim Loney along with delegation members Norman Kember and Harmeet Sooden were kidnapped in Iraq. Tom Fox was killed on March 9, 2006. 118 Days tells their story. "God created us to form the human family. The Christian Peacemakers went to Iraq to help build that family. They are an example for Christians everywhere. . . ." —Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The Mill Grinds Fine: Collected Poems, Helen Wade Alderfer (DSB, Winter 2009). I felt that a great, rich body of a life fully lived has just been hinted at—knew that I wanted to keep the book handy so that I could open it again soon, and often." —Ann Hostetler, Center for Mennonite Writing

Peace to War: Shifting Allegiances in the Assemblies of God, Paul Alexander, C. Henry Smith Series 9 (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 antiwar, Christian, pacifist sentiments of the Assemblies of God that Paul Alexander describes . . . juxtaposed in close proximity to their pro-war and anti-pacifist passion and identification with America . . . is simply striking. It should get any reader’s attention. The plot line of Peace to War 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.

Releases 2008 and earlier

Loving Enemies: A Manual for Ordinary People, Randy and Joyce 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

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

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

A Usable Past? Living Vocationally at the Margins, Paul Peachey (Winter 2008). "It will take more time to work out the deep theological issues with which Paul Peachey has grappled throughout his life and which he reflects in this work. Perhaps in God’s providence his work of creation and salvation are closer together than Luther thought. In any case he certainly was correct that those who would follow the path of Christ in reuniting both are too few in numbers. Paul, I feel, is one—a man before his time." --George F. McLean, Director, Center for the Study of Culture and Values The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., in the Foreword

Stumbling Toward a Genuine Conversation on Homosexuality, ed. Michael A. King (Autumn 2007). "So we stumble toward genuine conversation, toward the jazz hall, toward a Mennonite Church USA able at the same time to stand on the teachings it discerns for this era yet not just tolerate but actively welcome faithful dissent. Will we reach our destination? No time soon, I’d guess. In the end I don’t know how all the instruments could play together. I suspect it’s impossible. So why even work at what may never come to pass?" --Michael A. King, in the Introduction

Borders and Bridges: Mennonite Witness in a Religiously Diverse World, ed. Peter Dula and Alain Epp Weaver (Autumn 2007). "Cultivating an open receptivity to hearing Jesus’ voice in these encounters and building bridges of practical interfaith collaboration in relief, development, and peacebuilding ventures are thus vital forms of Christian witness. We offer these case studies with the hope and the prayer that the church might continue to explore new and creative interfaith collaborations and thus be ready to meet Jesus in the borderlands.. --From the Introduction

Under Vine and Fig Tree: Biblical Theologies of Land and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, ed. Alain Epp Weaver (Summer 2007). Rooted in Mennonite Central Committee's nearly six decades of work alongside Palestinians and Israelis, Under Vine and Fig Tree examines ways in which the Bible has been used to justify violence and dispossession and ways it can be received as a life-giving word for Palestinians and Israelis wishing to live securely under their own vines and fig trees.

Seeking Peace in Africa: Stories from African Peacemakers, ed. Donald E. Miller, Scott Holland, Lon Fendall, and Dean Johnson (Spring 2007). Seeking Peace in Africa is a direct reply to the World Council of Churches' Decade to Overcome Violence. The WCC appealed to the Historic Peace Churches to share their responses to the enormous reach of terror and violation of human life in this generation. The stories in this volume are the hopeful responses of Africans who have lived through horrific violence. Some are unbearable tales of despair at the loss of millions of lives due to warfare, riots, terror, starvation, AIDS, and disease. Others are remarkable descriptions of courageous peacemaking in the midst of nearly impossible circumstances.

Where We Start, Debra Gingerich, DreamSeeker Poetry Series vol. 4 (DSB, Spring 2007). "Gingerich knows ‘there is no perfect place / for anyone,’ and it shows in her work. What she finds in the midst of this fallen world is, in her words, ‘another kind of paradise.’ And through her lovely images and willful assertions, she offers more than ‘mere plums of information, / tasty juice splashed onto a page.'"
—Julia Kasdorf

That Amazing Junk-Man, Truman H. Brunk (DSB, Spring 2007). "Truman Brunk, storyteller extraordinaire, has finally committed some of his best to print. They come from his rich life as a builder of houses and more importantly as a builder of human beings. Some of his stories are part Garrison Keillor and part Mark Twain." —Gerald W Kaufman, L. Marlene Kaufman, Counselors and Authors

Practicing the Politics of Jesus: The Origin and Significance of John Howard Yoder's Social Ethics, Earl Zimmerman, C. Henry Smith Series 8 (Spring 2007). “I first met Yoder when he came to see us in the early years of the Sojourners community. He helped us take our life seriously as an agency for transformation in society and a political sign to the world. This book is a compellling study of the origin, development, and practical application of Yoder’s teaching.” —Jim Wallis, Author, God’s Politics; President, Sojourners/Call to Renewal

See Complete List for all releases going back to our first book published 1998. Browse or buy any of our titles at our Cascadia/Amazon.com Bookstore. Or search below for our books or any book at all available through Amazon.com.