Feb 12, 2025 | Author - Brad Jersak, Book Reviews
Stanley Hauerwas, Jesus Changes Everything (Plough Publishing), 2025. Review by Bradley Jersak In prayer and meditation, I have given this month to asking the Lord, “Show me where I am being tempted to despair and where I am being invited to despair.” In the...
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...
Jan 4, 2025 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Shadia Drury, Chauvinism of the West: The Case of American Exceptionalism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) Each year a few fine and must-read books...
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,’...
Oct 8, 2024 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
John W. Martens and Paul V. Niskanen (eds.), The Transcendent Mystery of God’s Word: A Critical Synthesis of Antioch and Alexandria (Saint Paul Seminary Press, 2024). There has been, in the history of Christian exegesis, at one level, a consistent yet unhelpful...
