Shirley H. Showalter

A Journey Home

Fiction

“Using the diaries and other sources her mother entrusted to her, Marlena Fiol traces the history of her amazing parents one more time, this time through the eyes of her dying father. She and Ed O’Connor have combined imagination and insight gleaned from long experience in taking us to the bedside of John Schmidt, a man who could no longer communicate but who found extraordinary insight into his own life and faith at the end.”

Models for Christian Higher Education

Discipleship & Christian Education

“This exciting book brings together disciplines that have too long been separated from each other — American religious history, higher education history, philosophy, and theology. . . . Reading this book with Mark Twain's rueful sensibility, one could say that the death of the Christian college has been greatly exaggerated. What we find in these pages is a depth of passion and commitment unmatched in all of American higher education — and signs that point to a lively future.”

Occasions

Arts & Literature

“Deep calls to deep in this book. If you don't have occasions that match the ones that inspired these wise, fierce, and gentle poems, you'll just have to invent them! Before I finished the book, I knew exactly which of my friends and family members needed to hear each grace-filled poem.”

The Blistering Morning Mist

History & Biography

“Like the trees so beautifully described in this book, the author’s roots are deep in Mennonite soil, from which her branches spread to faraway lands and unfamiliar cultures. The voice in this book is honest and luminous, lyrical, and spiritually profound. I was often moved by her journey from deep trauma to radiant joy, the joy of coming home to self. This is a marvelous memoir.”

The Road That I Must Walk

Christian Living

“This book is both devotional and theological. Above all, it is biblical. I was challenged to know Jesus more deeply and to follow him, regardless of cost, as I read this book.”