Dec 11, 2014 | Author - Brad Jersak
Trite or true, we're each and all on a journey, not quite sure whether any given year, week or moment is really ascent or descent — the calm before a storm or the dark before dawn. I see this tension in the biblical story of Calvary, at once a crucifixion...
Nov 22, 2014 | Author - Brad Jersak
"Having read Holy Scripture very carefully, you should also read the holy Fathers who interpret the Scriptures. You will receive no less delight from reading the Fathers than you do from the Scriptures. The Fathers develop the hidden meanings in Scripture and...
Nov 13, 2014 | Author - Brad Jersak
HER GATES WILL NEVER BE SHUT by Bradley Jersak Reviewed November 8, 2014.Wipf & Stock, Eugene, Oregon, 2009. 220 pages.Starred Review I’ve written about other books that have convinced me of the viewpoint of Evangelical Universalism, that hell, though real, does...
Nov 11, 2014 | Author - Brad Jersak
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori "It is sweet and fitting to die for your country." Horace, Odes (III.2.13) Vivid memories of words, pictures and emotions haunt me over thirty years later. High school English, my senior year and Mr. Howell is perched on...
Nov 7, 2014 | Author - Brad Jersak
The following is a dialogue between Brad Jersak and Peter Hordern, about Pauls' use of retribution language (in 2 Thessalonians 1), rhetorical criticism and the nonviolence of God. Peter: I'm continuing to wrestle with the idea of God as nonviolent. I...
Nov 3, 2014 | Author - Brad Jersak
The following is an excerpt from Simone Weil's essay, "The Love of God and Affliction" taken from Simone Weil, Awaiting God [Attente de Dieu] (trans. Brad Jersak, Freshwind Press, 2012). The grand enigma of human life is not...
