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About Miranda J. Chivers
Award-winning Canadian author Miranda J. Chivers writes about faith, mental health and authentic living. As a second generation Canadian of Russian Mennnonite refugees, she grew up surrounded by poverty and trauma. As a former social worker, avid researcher, and student of the Bible, her writing reflects her fascination with cultural diversity and social differences through a Biblical lens. Her goal is to heal hurting souls through both nonfiction and fiction.
Her NEW historical fiction series takes place during the Russian revolution. This coming-of-age story portrays the true heroic struggle of the German Mennonites during one of the most tragic times of early twentieth century history. This series will be released under the pen name of M.J. Krause-Chivers, the fictional stream for Miranda J. Chivers.
In her debut non-fiction book “Unequally Yoked: Staying Committed to Jesus and Your Unbelieving Spouse,” the author explores the challenges of living in an unequally yoked marriage; and provides scriptural resources and practical support to navigate this often complicated and grief-filled journey.
Miranda is a contributing author to the Christian devotional collaborations:
Hope When it Hurts: The Scars that Shape Us;
Holy Resilience: Finding the Way Forward;
Peace in the Presence of God: Devotionals for Women with Anxiety.
The Favor of Forgiveness: Find Yourself Again
All are available on Amazon.
Miranda regularly guests blogs on various online Christian magazines and is in the process of updating her own blog.
AWARDS: “Unequally Yoked: Staying Committed to Jesus and Your Unbelieving Spouse” won the Silver Medal in the 2018 Readers' Favorite Award (Christian Biblical Counseling); 2019 Author's Academy Awards (Advice) Top Ten; 2019 Top Shelf Awards Finalist.
Katarina's Dark Shadow is the bronze medal winner of the 2021 Global Book Awards (historical fiction.)
To contact: please reach her on FB @mirandajchivers
Check out her website for free info and read her latest blogs
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Blog postIn 2019, Parliament proclaimed the second week of September as Canadian Mennonite Heritage week. This event celebrates our one hundred and fifty years of contributions to Canada. But who are the Mennonites, and why is this recognition important? Mennonites are a diversified sect practicing varying degrees of social and religious conservativeness, and ethnic traditions. Some hold to heritage alone. Since our immigration timeline stretches from the 1600’s to after WW2, we self-identify according11 months ago Read more
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Blog postMy Amazon LinkThe following article was published in the Niagara News, September 9, 2021. Letter-reflections on mennonite and indigenous genocides Reprinted here: September 9, 2021. In 2019, Parliament proclaimed the second week of September as Canadian Mennonite Heritage week. This event celebrates our one hundred and fifty years of contributions to Canada. But who are the Mennonites, and why is this recognition important?11 months ago Read more
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Titles By Miranda J. Chivers
A future torn apart by war…
Adolescence lost to battle…
What becomes of those who lose their childhood to armed conflict?
In this anthology, a diverse group of authors from around the globe bring you a multi-genre collection of short stories exploring the experiences of children trapped in war, to honour those affected by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and support their healing in the future. No one's potential should be crippled because of trauma inflicted during their most impressionable years, and yet an entire generation of Ukrainians is threatened with just this outcome.
All proceeds of this anthology will be donated in perpetuity to Voices of Children Foundation in Ukraine or another similar charity.
Stories include:
Through Vira’s Eyes by MJ Krause Chivers
Not Dead, Just Sleeping by Darrah Steffen
A Child of Minidoka by Joan T. Seko
Jonah by C. Borden
The Prince and the Flute Player by C. Phillip
The Tarnished Key by Susan Stradiotto
A Mermaid’s Tears by J.C. Seal
The Dragon’s Demise by Daan Katz
The War Legacy by Nandita Pant Joshi
A Vampire’s Heart by I. Vélez
The Curse of Blood by Lauren Lee Merewether
Child of Destruction by Astrid V.J., USA Today Bestselling author
Through the Eyes of a Child by Pam Floyd
The Borrowed Life by Elena Shelest
The cover for this anthology was donated by Pallabi Pattanaik as a contribution towards this project.
This anthology includes illustrations by Ukrainian-American author-artist Elena Shelest.
Authors Academy Award Top Ten; 2019 Top Shelf Book Awards Top Ten; Silver Medal Winner of the 2018 Reader's Favorites Awards.
Do you need a practical guidebook to navigate your unequally yoked marriage? Are you tired of the fluffy and cliched promises from Christians who've never lived this life? i.e. those problem-free perfect marriages and families glowing with the love of Jesus. Oh yes, you want that life too, but it's not happening in your home because your spouse isn't interested. What can you do?
This author knows exactly how you feel, because she's been there. The praying, the pleading, the bargaining--if only he would read this book, or watch this movie, or come to church--you know all those covert manipulation strategies we often do to take charge of our spouse's salvation?
Congratulations. You've just landed on the book you need to shut down that fear and anxiety for good. This is the advice you need to help you let go and let God while you embrace your marriage with your full heart and soul.
In this book, you'll find strategies and advice you won't find anywhere else. You'll learn that by understanding your partner better, you'll also discover why they think the way they do--and then you'll learn how to put that fresh information to work to enhance your relationship while continuing to encourage their faith journey.
Don't waste another minute trying to do this all by yourself. This is the help you need right now.
Buy this book today.
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You decided to follow Jesus, but your spouse isn't interested. Your new Christian life should be amazing. Instead you are defending yourself--fighting for your right to believe--while enduring friction and strife. Peace seems impossible to attain.
This stress can derail your faith, hurt your self-confidence, and strain your marriage. If you want to follow the Bible's commands and experience genuine joy, you need a better and more balanced perspective. Discover a healthier marriage without sacrificing your faith.
This book provides practical solutions to real-life problems in this complex relationship.
After a lengthy prodigal journey, the author's re-dedication to her childhood evangelical faith in her second marriage shocked her non-Christian husband. Through prayer and researching the scriptures, she learned how to thrive in her unequally-yoked relationship while maintaining growth in her Christian life. And now she's here to help you recommit to both your faith and your marriage.
Unequally Yoked: Staying Committed to Jesus and Your Unbelieving Spouse will help you examine your conflicted marriage and create new roads to healing. Through real-world examples, you'll explore common problems and reframe your challenges, and pave the way to a happier marriage without sacrificing your faith in the process.
In Unequally Yoked: Staying Committed to Jesus and Your Unbelieving Spouse, you'll discover:
- Strategies for personal and spiritual balance
- Maintaining ties with a strong Christian support system
- Advice on resolving common mismatches in finances, friendships, and parenting styles
- How to assess the true nature of your spouse's relationship with God
- Techniques for better understanding your spouse's mindset and much, much more!
It's easy to lose hope, especially in today's world. Through times like these, we all need to be reminded of the hope of Jesus!
Hope for the Moment is a collection of what we're calling Devotional Stories, real stories by real people about a real God. There are some heavy moments, but in every story, hope is found and God is glorified. These serve to remind of God's faithfulness and goodness.
While most of the Christian writers in this collection are women, it can serve to encourage anyone of any age. Writers from around the world have contributed to this collaboration. We celebrate the international feel and have retained author styles.
The deep, personal stories in this collection will inspire and encourage anyone with an open heart.
May the real stories from these real people reflect the real God and add HOPE to your season. There is hope, a living hope in Jesus, one that does not disappoint.
You are not alone. You are loved. You are here for a reason.
Devotional Story titles and authors:*
- Is This Really Happening? by Pam Pegram
- Lift Your Eyes by Elenah Kangara
- My Hope is You by Jodi Arndt
- Hope for the Moment by Michael Lacey
- It's Amazing What You Can Live Through by Angie Walthall
- Trusting God through Turmoil and Trauma by Meredith Swift
- You are Good Enough by Mimi Emmanuel
- Hope in the Darkness by Kelly Walk Hines
- Real Biblical Hope by Matthew King
- Walking with God by Kathryn Springman
- From Trauma to Hope by Jill Rogers
- Hope in the Waiting by Miranda J. Chivers
- Driven Toward Hope by Al Ainsworth
- Hope, Peace, and Cancer-Free by Emily Smith
- When Hope Seems Lost by Pam Pegram
- The Garden of Hope by Michael Lacey
- *If you're a Christian writer, you can submit to the next collection! This is a Devo Writers Collaboration.
Keep on the lookout for more collections and subscribe (link in book) to be the first to know.
There's really no reason to wait, get Godly direction and HOPE now!
*SCROLL UP, BUY NOW!*(and why not get a gift for a close friend and go through it together?)
Historical fiction with a twisted mystery. This coming-of-age series portrays the true heroic struggle of the German Mennonites before Ukraine became a country, during one of the most tragic times of the early twentieth century. First Came the Horses.
Book One: Katarina's Dark Shadow: As the civil war erupts in the shadow of the Great War. Katarina discovers that faith is more than a badge and a belief system. During war-time, it requires resilience.
1951:Peter stumbles on Katarina's diaries from the Russian Revolution. What happened during those early years that prompted Katarina to go back to Ukraine during WW2? What secrets lie behind the Iron Curtain?
1915-1917: While the winds of the great war circle Ukraine, the country seeks independence from mother Russia. But for fifteen-year-old Katarina, war is still too far away to feel real. She dreams of a exotic future as a missionary school teacher in foreign lands.
Then a rebel attack at the family farm changes everything. Injured and fearful, Katarina seeks guarantees of safety. Her sister Anna’s wealthy estate with its security detail offers freedom and promises of dreams fulfilled. But after the Czar is overthrown and the separatist army grows, suspicion lurks at every corner. Even the servants can’t be trusted.
As the solid foundations of faith and family are threatened, Katarina’s world unravels. She faces the ultimate decision that will determine her future. Will she depend on her peaceful Mennonite faith to fight the forthcoming evil? Or, will she abandon all hope and emigrate with the others?
Is life a journey or a destination?
Set during the darkest days of Ukraine’s history, Katarina’s Dark Shadow portrays the courageous human struggle inside a distinct faith during violent political times. Like the book of Job in the Bible, the story portrays the quest for meaning during troubling times.
If you like intrigue, complex characters, and strong women of faith, you'll enjoy this spine-chilling Christian historical fiction series.
Inspired by true stories and actual events based on the harrowing tales of the author's ancestors, this book will particularly interest those with German-Prussian, Ukrainian, or Russian Mennonite ancestry.
If you enjoyed Tears of Amber and The Girl with the Silver Star, you’ll enjoy stepping into this intriguing and unusual world with its unique cultural dynamics. Witness the Russian revolution from an entirely different perspective.
***** “A chillingly realistic, yet fictional account of what happened to ordinary people in Russian Ukraine when their world was overthrown by social unrest, war, and then a revolution. I couldn’t put it down.” *****Author P.C. James.
***** “A gripping historical fiction and true to its time. Highly recommended for those interested in a different viewpoint from WWI.” ***** Author Nola Li Barr.
SCROLL UP AND GET BOOK ONE OF RUSSIAN MENNONITE CHRONICLES: KATARINA'S DARK SHADOW. BUY IT TODAY.
Overcome Anxiety and Find Peace in the Presence of God with 31 Christian devotionals, prayers, and journal prompts from best-selling authors★★★★★.
This beautiful collaboration can ALSO serve as a powerful prayer journal or accompany your own journal.
This is the third of the best-selling Devo Writers Collaborations series. Be sure to check out the other books!
A dozen Christian writers have joined together to expose anxiety by the Word of God, encourage women through their struggles, and give insight to how we can all find peace in the presence of God.
With concentrated efforts, these are the best of the best from authors including: Miranda J. Chivers, Leisa Williams, Joy W. Yancy, J. V. Lauren, Becky Sims, Cindy Blair, Anne Urubkov, Erin Watson Mohr, Jenna Schroeder, and CJ Westcot. (and one guy: Michael Lacey, who helps produce these Devo Writers Collaborations).
Anxiety has gripped all of us at some point and, for many, it has grown from a foothold to a stranglehold. But there is a way out! The answer is the peace we experience in God’s presence.
⚠Whether you get this book or read it or not, we pray that you pick up the Bible, pray, and lean into the presence of God. He is where we find your comfort in trying times, order in our broken messes, and healing when it seems impossible.
You will be healed of your anxiety. It may be instant or over time, it may be on the day you leave this earth, it may be in this very moment while you read this and believe it. It will be supernatural, God working and being glorified. In His praises, we find purpose. Healing and wholeness come in His presence. Reason finds its home on its knees before the King.
Don’t let anxiety rule. There is only One on the throne. Let’s worship Him together.
✓ Are you ready to FINALLY find peace?
✓ Have you tried everything else?
✓ Are you still saying, "one day" or is this DAY ONE?
The wait is over! Get this book NOW in whatever form you can, ebook or print. The journaling is optional or can be done in your own notebook if you prefer.
How do we keep going? How do we honor God through hard times?
We start by joining together, sharing our stories, and pointing to the One who is with us through it all.
This is a collection of short daily devotions as well as longer devotional stories. To get a quick read in the morning to start your day right, jump to the Daily Devotion section. When you have more time and want to see God’s faithfulness show through someone’s life story, read one of the Devotional Stories in the second half of the book.
⚠ This collaboration joins various authors around the world. The viewpoints of each author do not reflect those of everyone involved. We differ on some theological issues, but our goal is to come together—despite those differences—to share messages that challenge us to be faithful through troubled times.
May the real stories from these real people reflect the real God and give you tools for to have holy resilience through every season.
You are not alone ♥ You are loved ♥ You are here for a reason ♥ Let's find the way forward together.
Authors* include:
- Leisa Williams
- Miranda Chivers
- Grace Terry
- NCR
- Pam Pegram
- Candice Westcot
- Emily Smith
- Mimi Emmanuel
- Jodi Arndt
- Sha-Sha Chan
- Kelly Walk Hines
- Michael Lacey
*Christian writers are invited to join the next collaboration (details inside the book!).
Holy Resilience is a Christian Writers Collection from over a dozen international best-selling authors★★★★★ who work together as Devo Writers.
★Buy now, and get a copy for a friend!★
Forgiveness is one of the hardest and most important things we have to do. A heart that forgives is one that thrives.
To what extent should we forgive? As the Lord forgave you. In doing these things, we’ll be allowing God to remove the roots of bitterness, anger and wrath, and shouting and slander. That is the incredible favor of forgiveness.
You may wonder, “how can there be so many devotionals about forgiveness? It’s seems like a limited teaching topic…”
But you’ll be surprised and inspired by the dozens of different takes on the subject. Join 16 Devo Writers as they share personal stories of how God walked them through their own hurts to a place of forgiveness and what that can mean for your life.
Authors included:
Michael Lacey
Ami Loper
Jackie Perseghetti
Miranda J. Chivers
Robert Kapen
Tanya Duffey
Katie Arthur
Tambry Harris
CJ Westcot
Miranda J. Chivers
Charis Musick
Leena J
Mateja Stolnik Vugrek
Erin Watson Mohr
Natalie Pickering, PhD, BCC
Dvora Elisheva
Clare Johnson
And if you’re wanting to be a Devo Writer, there’s always room for more in upcoming collections! (More info in the book)
⚠ This collection is formed with various authors around the world. The viewpoints of each author do not reflect those of everyone involved. We differ on some theological issues, but our goal is to come together—despite those differences—to share messages that challenge us to be faithful through troubled times.
May the real stories from these real people reflect the real God and help you receive the favor of forgiveness.
You are not alone ♥ You are loved ♥ You are here for a reason ♥ Let's find the way forward together.
This is part of the Christian Devotional Collections which can be read in any order! Grab some copies as gifts for friends and loved ones.
Don't wait, grab a copy NOW!
We are called to worship at all times: on mountaintops, in the valleys, in the land of promise, and in the wilderness.
For you, the wilderness may be a financial drought, or maybe physical, emotional, or spiritual. These seasons are not usually the direct result of sin but rather a God-ordained time for you to learn more about His character and will for your life.
You are not alone. People throughout the Bible have gone through wilderness seasons: Job, Elijah, Paul, and Jesus, many of whom were righteous and blameless. Yet they still showed us how to grow closer to God through it all.
And that’s what the Devo Writers in this collaboration hope to do.
You will be inspired by this month long, daily devotional from multiple best-selling authors and some new writers! Join these Devo Writers as they share personal stories what worship means to them. Imagine what it can mean for you to grow in your understanding of praise to God. That's the promise these writers make if you will be bold enough to get the book and study these truths.
Authored by*:
- Michael Lacey
- Cassidy Poe
- Tanja Tuovinen
- Tanya Duffey
- Becky Sims
- Irish Gambito
- Sharon Hazel
- Ami Loper
- Katie Arthur
- Jackie Perseghetti
- Miranda J. Chivers
- Leena J
- Lauren Roskilly
- Erin Watson Mohr
- N.C.R.
- Robert Kapen
*If you’re wanting to be a Devo Writer, there’s always room for more in upcoming collections! (More info in the book)
⚠ This collection is formed with various authors around the world. The viewpoints of each author do not reflect those of everyone involved. We differ on some theological issues, but our goal is to come together—despite those differences—to share messages that challenge us to be faithful to Christ.
May the real stories from these real people reflect the real God and help you worship in the wilderness.
You are not alone ♥ You are loved ♥ You are here for a reason ♥ Let's find the way forward together.