While They're Still Here: A Memoir
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Overview
After a lifetime of strained bonds with her aging parents, Patricia Williams finds herself in the unexpected position of being their caregiver and neighbor. As they all begin to navigate this murky battleground, the long-buried issues that have divided their family for decades—alcoholism, infidelity, opposing politics—rear up and demand to be addressed head-on.
Williams answers the call of duty with trepidation at first, confronting the lines between service and servant, guardian and warden, while her parents alternately resist her help and wear her out. But by facing each new struggle with determination, grace, and courage, they ultimately emerge into a dynamic of greater transparency, mutual support, and teachable moments for all. Honest and humorous, graceful and grumbling, While They’re Still Here is a poignant story about a family that waves the white flag and begins to heal old wounds as they guide each other through the most vulnerable chapter of their lives.
- Title: While They're Still Here: A Memoir
- Author: P. J. Williams
- Publisher: She Writes Press
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781631522413, 9781631522406, 163152240X, 1631522418
- Resource ID: LLS:9781631522413
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-08-14T18:08:45Z
P. J. Williams is the warden of Tyndale House, professor of divinity at the University of Cambridge, and honorary senior lecturer in biblical studies at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Early Syriac Translation Technique and the Textual Criticism of the Greek Gospels and Studies in the Syntax of the Peshitta of 1 Kings. He has debated Bart Ehrman and actively blogs and at Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog.