The Guerrilla and the Green Beret is a handbook designed for those in difficult marriages who are committed to stay in the relationship. In its more than 300 strategies, it utilizes the metaphor of the skilled guerrilla warrior to fight for the marriage, based upon a biblical foundation and supported by wisdom from a variety of counseling and recovery resources.

Eliza Tillinghast Vilette Duncan, 1796-1878, was a typical woman of her times, touched by slave-trading and abolition, by the loss of children and the isolation of the Ohio frontier. She was remembered in the Western Reserve as the woman who named the City of Massillon after Jean Baptiste Massillon, Bishop of Clermont. She was also a woman who left behind all that was familiar to her, in order to step gingerly and yet forcefully into the unknown. An only child, Eliza became a wife, mother, and grandmother, and perhaps a shopkeeper, a businesswoman, a pacifist, and even a closet suffragette....

As a columnist for the Ashland (Ohio) Times-Gazette, JoAnn Streeter Shade has been writing about small town life, family connections, and social issues of all kinds for eight years. These short essays on social concerns and political order and disorder first saw the light of day on the pages of the newspaper, and are now offered as an assortment of reflections from an opinionated lady. In this collection, Shade searches for life lessons in the exploits of the Cleveland sports teams, the gleaned truths of children's picture books and films, the ups and downs of social media, and the notes...

Designed to explore the world of words, "Let It Flow: Writing for Wellness" provides an overview of writing as a tool to promote optimum mental and emotional health. Dr. JoAnn Streeter Shade, a long-time social service provider and author, uses journaling, list-making, non-fiction writing, story-telling, and poetry to open artistic doors for the mental health services consumer as well as for those in the helping professions. Throughout these pages, creative writing exercises are joined with wise counsel from successful authors to encourage and affirm the fledgling writer. Used individually or...

Imagine entering an art gallery displaying an eclectic collection of renderings of God. A first chamber presents the seeker with illustrations of God in action, while a second is filled with images from nature. Walking further, the visitor sees God as illuminated in the elements, and then discovers that the final chamber is filled with portraits of God in relationship. Through word images, hymns, poetry, suggested interactions, and prayers, JoAnn Streeter Shade welcomes the reader into the God Gallery: Images of the Holy.

Notes of Advent for Christ-Seekers selects a traditional Christmas Carol from December 1 - December 25, encouraging the reader to prepare spiritually each day for the coming of the Christ Child. Notes of Advent is one of a series of devotional books for the season of Advent.

A collection of Christmas reflections focusing on family, faith, and Salvation Army ministry.

Sexual abuse has long-lasting, life-altering consequences, but these consequences do not have to be life-destroying. The pages of Rapha's Touch: Healing from Sexual Abuse, extend an invitation to enter the presence of Jehovah-Rapha, the God who heals, the One who mends that which is torn. The story line of Tamar, daughter of King David, whose sexual abuse at the hands of her brother is recounted in the Old Testament is interwoven with snapshots of personal memory around the themes of unstained fabric, damaged remnants, a rag rug, the patchwork quilt, and an exquisite tapestry. Each chapter...

Family ties cross generations and miles, and keep us connected to those we love, both our blood relatives and the friend we hold dear. These essays are about the the rhythms of life in a family, about birthdays and vacations, weddings, and funerals, times when we gather together and times when we find ourselves too far apart. They tell the stories of common experiences we shared as human beings, themes that are woven into the fabric of all families.