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A Cold and Broken Hallelujah – response by Brad Jersak
Leonard Cohen's mournful ballad, 'Hallelujah,' moved me to tears from the first time I heard it (covered by Jeff Buckley). Why so? What is this dissonance between the victorious term of praise when sung in the tones of a dirge? What is it to sing 'a cold and broken hallelujah'? (see below)
I cannot speak for Cohen -- though others have (e.g. Liel Leibovitz's A Broken Hallelujah), -- but I can describe my own resonance with my fellow Canadian's lament. The song entrances me with the reality of life and faith beyond the surface narratives of triumphalism. Our 'hosannas' and 'hallelujahs' have too often signaled a desperate stuckness in what we ...
Spring 2016
Articles:
The Jesus Way - p4
Out for Blood? - p7
Golgatha: Collision of Sin and Grace - p13
The verdict Is In... -p14
Jesus at the Gates of Hell - p17
The Importance of Doubt - p19
Strange Land of Dread and Denial - p20
More Than Magazines (2015 Year in Review) -p26
Kissing Evangelism Goodbye - p28
The Jewish Teacher - p29
God Is Not the Witch -p31
Winter 2015
Articles:
God...More Than a "Christian"? -p4
When Poetry Devolves into Doctrine -p8
He's There For You & With You (God With Us)- p10
Why I Still Believe in God -p18
How the WORD Read the Word -p23
God Is Just Like Jesus - p25
God Is Love...and Love Never Ends -p26
You Are Worth More than Chewing Gum! -p31
Fall 2015
Articles:
Responding to the River of God's Grace -p4
Reading the Bible as an Epic Story -p8
Everything Happens for a Reason...Or? -p9
Giving Thanks to the Master -p11
Millennials and Money -p14
Don't Water it Down -p16
"Are you saved?" -p17
Jesus IS What God Has to Say -p19
Inspiried, Infallible & Inerrant? -p20
Does Recovering from Religion Have to be Morose p25
Are Bible Verses the Worst Thing Ever? -p26
Disarming Scripture -p28
Defending the Bible? -p31
Nov-Dec 2015
Articles:
The Visitor - page 1
Apart From and before God's Grace - page 2
Fellowship of the Unashamed - page 4
Perils of Bible Dissection - page 5
Reading the Bible Right - page 6
God Loves China - page 7
Jul-Aug 2015
Articles:
Gateway to the Gospels: John - page 1
Grace A Lot or Grace Alone? - page 2
The New Covenant: Part 3 - page 4
Reading & Understanding the Bible: Part 3 - page 6
Grandma Taught Me - page 7
May-Jun 2015
Articles:
Gateway to the Gospels: Luke - page 1
Unsnatchable! - page 2
The New Covenant: Part 2 - page 4
Reading & Understanding the Bible...Part 2 - page 6
Tangled Trees - page 7
Summer 2015
Articles:
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For -p4
Would you Choose the Truth Over Christ? -p11
Would you Choose Christ Over the Truth? -p12
"The Bible clearly says..." -p13
You Can't Imagine How Much He Loves You -p15
The Church As We Know It -p17
Regret--the Silent Killer -p18
Rx for Remorse, Regret, Resentment -p22
In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud -p24
Behaving Badly -p26
The Calf Path -p30
The Only Way to Really Get It -p31
Mar-Apr 2015
Articles:
Gateway to the Gospels: Mark - page 1
Everything for Nothing - page 2
The New Covenant: Part 1 - page 4
Reading & Understanding the Bible: Part 1 - page 6
Seeking the Kingdom? - page 7
Jan-Feb 2015
Articles:
Transitions: Past, Present & Future - page 1
Jesus -- Superior and Supreme - page 8
Gateway to the Gospels: Matthew - page 13
Death, Loss, Pain & Laughter - page 16
All Jesus, All the Time - page 17
Grace & Response: First Things First - page 19
The "Typhoon of Steel" - page 22
Why We Believe What We Believe - page 23
The Kiln - page 30
You and Me and Our Father - page 31
Trailer – A More Christlike God – Brad Jersak
Brad Jersak's A More Christlike God: A More Beautiful Gospel (CWR Press, 2015) can now be pre-ordered at https://www.ptm.org/uni/resources/order/form_christlike.php
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