Still Here

Even before charting his fiftieth #1 single in 2023, Steven Curtis Chapman's long career in Christian music had become historic by any measure. And yet, together for more than forty years with his wife, Mary Beth, the Chapmans have become as known and beloved for their devotion to marriage and family than for all the songs that made him a household name. Still Here is Steven and Mary Beth, writing as a couple for the first time, reflecting on what's gone so right, and gone so wrong, and has kept them going on at times when they thought they were going under. Brimming with relatable honesty and transparency, they share without filter many of the regrets and conflicts they've each brought into their uncommon life, as well as the determined commitment to persevere that has kept love alive into their fifth decade of marriage. Yet, as much as their book is an inside memoir, it's even more an insightful selection of hard-fought lessons learned, of the wisdom they've gained and the unwise expectations they've tried to lose. This book is their take on marriage, on parenting, on the lives we live and the promises we make, on the joys that are ours to be had and the forfeits that none of us want left around to hurt us. The Chapman's story, like all our stories, is one of total dependence on God's grace and goodness, on his faithfulness and forgiveness, and on his readiness to redeem every outbreak of brokenness, on all our journeys home.