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Books marked DSB are released by Cascadia under the DreamSeeker Books imprint and BW under the BranchWood Books imprint. Listed in order of publication date, most recent releases first.

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New Moves: A Theological Odyssey (DSB), J. Denny Weaver, DreamSeeker Memoir Series, vol. 3, 2023. "Sometime amid the nine courses I took with J. Denny Weaver at Bluffton University, I commented to him that I wished I could be rebaptized, since I had come to understand my faith in a much deeper way than I had as a 14-year-old. His response: 'Your faith is supposed to keep growing and changing. That’s the whole point!' In this memoir . . . tracks the development of his vocation as a teacher and writer. Here we gain appreciation for a faith that continues to grow and deepen in conversation with both critics and admirers.” —Janeen Bertsche Johnson, Director of Campus Ministries, Admissions and Development Associate, Alumni Director, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Fences, by Cheryl Denise (DSB), DreamSeeker Poetry Series, vol. 20, 2022. “‘I pick him up hitchhiking . . . / his face a plowed field, dirt and stone, but I see that six-year-old, / his full name scrawled across the manger,’ writes Cheryl Denise in a poetry collection which brings much to the fold: the past and the present, the lost and the found. Forthright and vulnerable, the speaker in these compelling poems defies barriers, confronts anxieties, and presents the valuable perspective of a Mennonite poet still attuned to the farm.” —Shari Wagner, former Indiana Poet Laureate; Author, The Farm Wife’s Almanac

East of Liberal: Notes on the Land (DSB), Raylene Hinz-Penner, DreamSeeker Memoir Series, vol. 2, 2022. “Hinz-Penner offers an engaging personal and political narrative that explores the contradictions, myths, and resilience of what we call her landlines, bloodlines, and songlines. Her memoir includes helpful distillations of significant historical periods and patterns of Mennonite migrations and Indigenous and settler histories. I hope it will inspire other settlers to venture their own decolonial re-memberings.” —Elaine Enns, Co-Author, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization

This Very Ground, This Crooked Affair: A Mennonite Homestead on Lenape Land, by John L. Ruth, 2021. A veteran historian offers a riveting history of the author's land, its historic intersections with its original owners, the Lenapi, and how it was taken from them. "Ruth dares us to remember how the Original People of Turtle Island responded to the English Quakers and Swiss-German Mennonites breaking into their world. How could such strangers learn to live in peace? How can a human being 'own' land? What is justice for all? After a lifetime of unearthing facts, with inspired insight Ruth builds the foundation stories of who and what we are today. Listen to him—very carefully." — Rudy Wiebe, Author, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest 

Between the Heron and the Moss, by Sarah M. Wells (DSB), DreamSeeker Poetry Series, vol. 18, 2020. Kathryn Winograd, author of Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children, reports that "Wells beautifully melds the secular and the non-secular, the divine and the human, as she explores what tethers and frees the questing heart."

The Moon Is Always Whole, by Julia Baker Swann (DSB), DreamSeeker Poetry Series, vol. 19, 2020. "In this theopoetic adventure of body and soul, Julia Baker Swann believes a body knows and a poem knows much in a field of clover beyond belief." —Scott Holland, Slabaugh Professor of Theology & Culture at Bethany Theological Seminary

Acquiring Land: Late Poems, by Jane Rohrer (DSB),  DreamSeeker Poetry Series, vol. 17, 2020. "Jane Rohrer came late to poetry, but there is nothing belated about Acquiring Land, her marvelous new collection. These alert, inventive, expansive poems travel widely—into her memory and family history, and around the world—constantly offering up bold, moving insights and turns of phrase. Few poets are ready to turn both acquisitive capitalism and generations of Mennonite hunger for farmland on their heads, but Rohrer does just that, in spare but visionary poems that call us to enter a world where we 'recognize ourselves / as we are, everywhere at once.' An intimate, candid conversation between Rohrer and her granddaughter further explores the idea that for the alert writer 'Everything Is a Studio.'” —Jeff Gundy, Professor of English, Bluffton University

Yoder School (DSB), DreamSeeker Memoir Series, vol. 1, Phyllis Miller Swartz, 2019. When you follow Phyllis into each new setting and each new challenge, think of the hungry caterpillar, eating its way into its true self, beauty and freedom, voluntarily casting off old skins before transforming into new ones. As you pause to reflect on the pedagogical and theological truth in that image, you too are a student in the Yoder School." —Shirley Hershey Showalter, author of the memoir Blush and President Emeritus, Goshen College, in the Foreword

The Absent Christ: An Anabaptist Theology of the Empty Tomb, C. Henry Smith Series 12, Justin Heinzekehr (2019), Justin Heinzekehr, 2019. "Looking for divinity in the faces of those around us, rather than in otherworldly places or merely in our own religious performance, is not the end of theology but rather its beginning. And it puts a healthy spin on a question I have raised for years, ‘What is Jesus doing now?’" —Joerg Rieger, Distinguished Professor of Theology, Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Theology, Director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice, Vanderbilt University

The Farm Wife's Almanac, poems by Shari Wagner, (DSB), DreamSeeker Poetry Series, vol. 16, 2019. “The farm wife names children after beloved cows, plays rook, and wants to be buried in a root cellar. In poem after poem we see what might appear to be a sheltered, insular life in its true and astonishing expansiveness. These are poems of both intensity and calm beauty, transformative in their vision of the holiness in the everyday.” —Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Author, What Cannot Be Fixed, Poetry Editor, The Christian Century, and Professor Emerita of English, Wheaton College

Let the Children Come to Me: Nurturing Anabaptist Faith Within Families, Lisa Weaver and Elizabeth Miller with design by Judith Rempel Smucker, 2019. "This resource is an amazing treasure for our families! A great balance of principles and experience, contextual relevance and cultural diversity, historic and contemporary challenges, Anabaptist values, and teaching resources. Highly recommended." —César García, Executive Secretary, Mennonite World Conference

On the Banks of Jacobs Creek: A History of the Scottdale Mennonite Churches, Daniel Hertzler, 2019. "Dan Hertzler promises to write an honest account of the Mennonite presence in Scottdale. An honest account means that Hertzler is candid about the upsides and downsides,—the successes and weaknesses—of the people playing on this stage of history. Grasping the story of one congregation is challenge enough to say nothing of three. —John Sharp, historian; author of My Calling to Fulfill: The Orie O. Miller Story; author of A School on the Prairie; and former Scottdale pastor, in the Foreword

Safehold, DSB, DreamSeeker Poetry Series, vol. 15, 2018."With these richly layered poems, Ann Hostetler illuminates the gifts, intimacies, and complications of family, heritage, and contemporary life. With clear-eyed gaze she artfully ‘traces our shapes,’ our celebrations and tragedies, inviting us to "live as though the body were the soul." —Jean Janzen, Author, What the Body Knows

Cornfields, Cottonwoods, Seagulls and Sermons: Growing Up in Nebraska,  DSB, DreamSeeker Poetry Series 14, Joseph Gascho, 2017

Education with the Grain of the Universe: A Peaceable Vision for the Future of Mennonite Schools, Colleges, and Universities, C. Henry Smith Series 11, edited J. Denny Weaver, 2017

Human Sexuality in Biblical Perspective: A Study Guide, Carrie A. Mast and Gerald J. Mast, 2016. "Offering an insightful and distinctively Mennonite ‘angle,’ into contemporary debates regarding sexuality, this book identifies key themes worth talking about in fresh ways." —James Brownson, Author, Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships

Re-Envisioning Service: The Geography of Our Faith: Brethren and Mennonite Stories Integrating Faith, Life, and the World of Thought, ACRS Memoirs, vol. 3, edited Ray C. Gingerich and Pat Hostetter Martin, 2016. "I pray this text will bless generations yet unborn as these accounts spur them and us to become agents of healing and hope." —Stanley W. Green, Executive Director, Mennonite Mission Network, in the Foreword

Living the Anabaptist Story: A Guide to Early Beginnings with Questions for Today, Lisa D. Weaver and J. Denny Weaver, 2015. "As this vital resource for current younger Mennonites or those exploring Anabaptism stirs a remembering of the past, it will awaken contemporary Anabaptists to be radically discipled after Jesus into a more hopeful future." —Drew G. I. Hart blogs for Christian Century and The Mennonite; he is Author, Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

What the Body Knows, Dreamseeker Poetry Series, vol. 12, Jean Janzen, DSB, 2015. "In ‘Winter Child’ Jean Janzen remembers ‘a kind of ecstasy’ from a wintry afternoon, her ‘small figure falling again and again / to make a host of angels in my own backyard.’ Steeped as they are in loss and grief, these poems may hardly seem angelic—except in their glimmering music, their wintry knowledge, and their generous wisdom. What the Body Knows is a book to savor and to treasure." —Jeff Gundy, author of Songs from an Empty Cage and Somewhere Near Defiance

Cadabra, Dreamseeker Poetry Series, vol. 13, Jen Kindbom, DSB, 2015. “In Cadabra, Jen Kindbom pulls the whimsical, the mysterious, and the beautiful out of the shadows, the common, and the forgotten, holds them both, like a butterfly and its chrysalis, in her palm and says, ‘See?’” —Sarah M. Wells, Author, Pruning Burning Bushes

Momentary Stay, DreamSeeker Poetry Series, vol. 11, Barbara Shisler, DSB, 2015. "’Love every tedious beat/ of your dear and fleeting life,’ writes Barbara Esch Shisler in her poem, ‘To a Mountain.’ And she takes her own advice, plainly naming a world of pleasures and pains. In her gaze, African violets are ‘luscious birds in furry nests,’ and meals at the Nursing Home, ‘vague purees.’ The strange teachings of Jesus turn and flash in her imagination. These poems offer good company for anyone brave enough to face the freedom and losses that come with age." --Julia Spicher Kasdorf, author, Poetry in America

Releases before 2015

True Confessions of a God Killer, DreamSeeker Fiction Series, vol. 2, Emily Hedrick, DSB, 2014. "An absorbing tale of spiritual awakening, True Confessions of a God Killer explores the arduous, sometimes perilous, journey toward self-knowledge that is intimately linked with God-knowledge. Not for the timid or faint of heart, this tale lures the reader off safe paths into utter darkness and then toward tantalizing glimpses of healing light. An unforgettably honest and courageous story." —Marlene Kropf, William B. Oglesby, Jr. Professor of Pastoral Theology, The Graduate Theological Foundation; Professor Emerita of Spiritual Formation and Worship, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

Discovering Forgiveness: Pathways Through Injury, Apology, and Healing, Theological Postings Series, vol. 2, Larry Dunn, 2014. In his foreword, John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame, tells readers that in Dunn's book they "will feel the promise, appeal, and provocations forgiveness affords when we seek genuine encounter with self, other, and God."

Reading the Bible as if Jesus Mattered, Duane Beachey, 2014. “Beachey issues a call to a radical discipleship that has always been counter-cultural and always will be. Jesus matters. He matters more than any of our customs, predilections and prejudices. This book will help you put him back at the center of your faith.” —Danny Duncan Collum, in the Foreword

Songs from an Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Anabaptism, and Peace, C. Henry Smith Series 10, Jeff Gundy, 2013. "One of the engaging elements of Jeff Gundy’s theopoetics is his acceptance and use of the sense of many poets that they need to challenge established orthodoxies, thus his embrace of the category of ‘heresy,’ his support of the ‘transgressions’ of poets, and his interest in ancient writings deemed heretical." —J. Denny Weaver, in the C. Henry Smith Series Editor's Preface

On My Way: The View from the Ninth Decade, Daniel Hertzler, DSB, 2013. "Dan has once again offered us words that are modest, truthful, engaging, and wise." —David B. Miller,Associate Professor of Missional Leadership Development, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, in the Foreword

Discerning God's Will Together: Biblical Interpretation in the Free Church Tradition, Ervin R. Stutzman, 2013. “How timely it is in the hurly burly fractiousness of our times for Ervin Stutzman . . . to lift up the core practice of discernment for all to consider afresh.”—Sara Wenger Shenk, President, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, in the Foreword

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