Mar 8, 2016 | Author - Brian Zahnd
Oh! Ephraim is my dear, dear son,My child in whom I take pleasure!Every time I mention his name,My heart bursts with longing for him!Everything in me cries out for him.Softly and tenderly I wait for him.–Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:20) The God that holds you over...
Mar 4, 2016 | Author - Brad Jersak, Author - Brian Zahnd, Book Reviews
Vintage Zahnd! For those who are late to the game and wondering who Brian Zahnd is and where he's coming from, Water to Wine is a good place to start. You'll be able to experience his long faith journey in these memoirs of a master storyteller and wordsmith....
Feb 25, 2016 | Author - Brian Zahnd
My father died in 2009. He was one of the wisest and kindest men I’ve ever known. L. Glen Zahnd was a judge and at his funeral a man he had once sent to prison for armed robbery came up to me and said, “I’m here today to honor your father. In his capacity...
Feb 8, 2016 | Author - Brian Zahnd
In the mystery of the Eucharist God in Christ chooses to make himself present to humanity by ordinary elements. Through grain and grape we find Christ present in the world. But it’s not unprocessed grain and grape that we find on the Communion table, it’s bread and...
Jan 29, 2016 | Author - Brian Zahnd
Ours is an angry and vociferous age. We’re constantly subjected to the noise of charged political rhetoric — the wearying din of the culture wars. Too often Sunday morning can be little more than a religious echo of this same noise. But shouldn’t Sunday be a Christian...
Jan 19, 2016 | Author - Brian Zahnd
Brian Zahnd, Water to Wine (2016) http://www.amazon.com/Water-Wine-Some-My-Story/dp/0692569189 I once heard an Italian winemaker say that to produce good wine the grapes must struggle, they must suffer. The taste of good wine is the taste of...