Oct 11, 2025 | Author - Brad Jersak
Greetings, friends of Clarion Journal, At the end of September, Typepad, the internet platform that has housed the Clarion Journal for the past 20+ years, informed us that they are shutting down. They gave us a one-click export option to save our files for transport...
Feb 12, 2025 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Stanley Hauerwas, Jesus Changes Everything (Plough Publishing), 2025. Review by Bradley Jersak In prayer and meditation, I have given this month to asking the Lord, “Show me where I am being tempted to despair and where I am being invited to despair.” In the...
Feb 2, 2025 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Jason, Landsel, with Sankha Banerjee (Art), Richard Mommsen (Script), By Fire: The Jakob Hutter Story (Plough Publishing, 2025). SAMPLE By Fire: The Jakob Hutter Story is a graphic novel, Book 2 in Plough Publishing’s “Heroes of the Radical Reformation” series. Like...
Jan 5, 2025 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
After thoroughly enjoying "Patapsco Spirits: Eleven Ghost Stories", Addison Hart's marvellous collection of short ghost stories (it was my top fiction choice for 2024), I immediately raced to see what other books he had to offer. It turns out, quite a...
Oct 26, 2024 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Joonas Sildre’s Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to his Musical Language (trans. Adam Cullen (Plough Publishing, 2024). I confess that I had not recalled previously hearing of Arvo Pärt, the subversive Estonian musician and Soviet exile, nor of ‘tintinnabuli,’...
Jul 20, 2024 | Author - Brad Jersak
THE CO-SUFFERING CONSCIENCE by Bradley Jersak Awareness I am aware of the gifts I’ve been given as blessings from God, family, and the body of Christ. I will use these where I’m able, let go where I can’t, and seek to use them in service of others. I am aware of the...
