John Stackhouse
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Eminent Scientist Concludes God Doesn’t Exist—Again
Stephen Hawking gets one more chance to give “Brief Answers to the Big Questions” in his new book, finished after his death last March by...
John Stackhouse
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Reality: What a Concept
“I prefer to think of my bank account as limitless.” “I prefer to think of myself as universally charming.” “I prefer to think of traffic...
John Stackhouse
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If Sorrow Is Stalking You
Sometimes God presses us right up against the wall of what we can endure. And sometimes God smashes us right through it. I sat down with...
John Stackhouse
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Blessed Are the Merciful
It’s tax season. Want some more bad news? Of course you do. But let’s start with some good news first—good news, that is, for those...
John Stackhouse
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Let’s First Get a Few Things Straight
Alas, Christians are denounced still today by people who are confident they know what Christians believe and practice, but who clearly don’t
John Stackhouse
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Ravi Zacharias and the Case of Christian Credential Inflation
If you listen to podcasts, you might want to take in this one. Christianity Today interviewed me recently and thus let me explain in some...
John Stackhouse
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Why Isn’t Christianity Simpler?
When I moved to Vancouver in 1998, once people found out I had been a guest of various radio hosts in Winnipeg and elsewhere, the...
John Stackhouse
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The New Atheists Should Get Out More
One of the more astonishing claims made over and over by Richard Dawkins (you can start with his bestseller, The God Delusion) is that...
John Stackhouse
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Faith, Foolishness, and Fanaticism
Last week I chided the CBC’s Neil Macdonald for his outburst against people of faith whom he clearly would prefer to keep out of sight in...
John Stackhouse
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Alvin Plantinga: The Atheists’ Unicorn
Alvin Plantinga, professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, recently received the Templeton Prize in Religion, which “honors a...
John Stackhouse
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Should Tax Money Go to Religious Groups?
[This is a lightly edited version of a post that first appeared on the “Context with Lorna Dueck” website.] One hears murmurs,...
John Stackhouse
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“Jesus Camp” Goes to Uganda
I look forward to serving as the lone respondent to the local showing of a documentary that has already received notice in the American...
John Stackhouse
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Evil Encore
In the wake of the Newtown school shooting, I’ve been asked to comment since I am a theologian by profession and the author of a book on...
John Stackhouse
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Evangelism: As Strategic as Electoral Politics?
James Surowiecki writes in The New Yorker about so-called micro-targeting research that intends to find those precious U.S. voters who...
John Stackhouse
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Christianity the Worst Source of Evil?
A friend writes: I have run across the following issue a lot recently: the blaming of Christianity (and belief in God generally) for all...
John Stackhouse
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Arguments from Design Don’t Prove; They Show
One can hardly get through an issue of a popular science magazine these days without having one or another of two gospels preached at...
John Stackhouse
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Who You Gonna Call?
The following is my latest contribution to the “Ask John” feature of Wondering Fair, a blog led by Regent College graduates around the...
John Stackhouse
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Is There Gratuitous Suffering?
A new interlocutor, G. Ehrlich, has engaged me in comments on the previous post on a range of matters. But, in his view, the main matters...
John Stackhouse
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Why Didn't God Just…?
Many of us wonder, particularly in the face of evil, why an omnipotent God didn’t just do things differently–you know, the way you and I...
John Stackhouse
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Hell and the Goodness of God
At the conclusion of my course in Systematic Theology this term, I offered a lecture on “Hell and the Goodness of God.” I give the same...