May 4, 2018 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Gregory of Nyssa reads the Psalms soteriologically. Abridged excerpt from Ronald E. Heine, Gregory of Nyssa’s Treatise on the Inscriptions of the Psalms (Oxford, 1995), 43. [note: emphases and brackets mine] For Gregory of Nyssa, the skopoV[aim] of the Psalter...
Mar 13, 2018 | Author - Brad Jersak
Humility. An evasive and misunderstood virtue. I've not learned it. But together, we can ponder it from five wise voices. Don't figure it out. Just be still and marinate. 1. With Moby – "This Wild Darkness" Tried so hard to be...
Feb 9, 2018 | Author - Andrew Klager, Author - Brad Jersak
The Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.” “When we identify ourselves as sinners, we are not speaking ontologically. That is, we are not speaking of our truest selves seated with Christ in the heavenly realms or as those...
Feb 3, 2018 | Author - Brad Jersak, Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
“Erasmus was too good a humanist to live only in the past.” – P.S. Allen In these days of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s Wittenburg manifesto and the strange opposition between Christianity and humanism, one can only wonder how...
Jan 29, 2018 | Author - Brad Jersak
Fr. Seraphim is establishing the Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull (near Iona) of the west coast of Scotland. He shared the homily at Holy Apostles Orthodox Mission in Chilliwack, BC on Sunday, Jan 28, 2018. Midway through the homily, I felt...
