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...
Mar 8, 2024 | Author - Brad Jersak
Parable of the Ten Virgins Have you ever given time to ponder Jesus' parable of the ten virgins? It raises notoriously difficult questions about what Jesus meant, what the various symbols represent, and how the parable should be understood and applied. And we...
Dec 23, 2023 | Author - Brad Jersak
In 2012, I visited Bethlehem, where I attended the Christ at the Checkpoint conference. He would not remember, but it was there and then that I met Dr. Munther Isaac. Little did I know that one day, we would become colleagues, as he is the Academic Dean of Bethlehem...
