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...
Aug 12, 2023 | Author - Brad Jersak
My ecclesial journey has included 20 years with the Baptists (via my parents), 10 years with the Mennonites (via marriage), another 10 years with renewal movement folks, including a church plant focused on the margins (mainly people with disabilities, addicts in...
Jul 17, 2023 | Author - Brad Jersak
Question I just finished Bradley Jersak's June 4, 2023 article: "The Devil…from the Arche." My wrestle is then how the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil could exist in Eden if there was no sin yet. If sin originates with humankind, what was...
