Oct 6, 2020 | Author - Brad Jersak, Author - Wayne Northey
IRPJ.org (Institute for Religion, Peace & Justice) presents an interview with Wayne Northey (host: Brad Jersak) highlighting the contrast between Western criminal justice as retributive pain-delivery and the inclusive, restorative, community justice that more...
Sep 30, 2020 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
The Pastor: A Crisis – Review by Becky ParkerBefore I began this book, I knew I’d be uncomfortable with some of the material. I’d heard an interview in which the authors confirmed that the topic of child sexual abuse was discussed. Since I am not a victim of...
Sep 10, 2020 | Author - Brad Jersak
I was seven-years-old and in love. To my shame, I've forgotten her name, but my second-grade teacher left a deep impression on me. Nothing sexual at that point, but certainly a longing for her affection. She was young and beautiful and a child of the sixties,...
Sep 9, 2020 | Author - Brad Jersak
PASCAL’S WAGER Pascal was a genius mathematician and a brilliant philosopher/theologian. He is known in popular apologetics for what we call “Pascal’s Wager.” For a very precise discussion, I would refer readers to this article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of...
Sep 3, 2020 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Another Life is Possible – Insights from 100 years of Life Together Another Life is Possible (Plough, 2020) arrived on our doorstep not long ago. Eden picked up the package and felt its physical weight, but we no idea how its physical size would be outweighed by the...
Aug 27, 2020 | Author - Brad Jersak
The Pastor: A Crisis Paul Young and I have just released our novella, The Pastor: A Crisis (Capella Books 2020). The story features the dramatic meltdown of a fundamentalist pastor whose ministry of condemnation and moralism turns out to be a mask for his own deep...
