Is Christianity Anti-Semitic?
The recent synagogue shooting in Poway, California, has focused attention on an abiding question regarding Christians and Jews: Is...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Reasonable Accommodation Is a Two-Way Street
There’s a lot to dislike in the Quebecois government’s recent bill that would outlaw the wearing of religious symbols by public...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
The Perils of Public Prayer
According to The Washington Post, “State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz was on the ninth ‘Jesus’ of her opening prayer in the Pennsylvania...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
The End of Life—and the End of an Era?
We are approaching an inflection point. In geometry, an inflection point is where a curve starts to change its shape—say, from curving...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Beware the Quiet Call of Corruption
[This was originally posted in March 2019] In the Biblical book of Proverbs, two odd sayings, almost identical, appear just a few verses...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
A Bribe by Any Other Name Would Smell…
I’ve got some hard things to say, so let’s get a couple of things straight before I say them. First, I am not writing out of...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Climate Change? Well, for Starters…
A friend of mine, who has recently taken a job on behalf of a political party on the left side of Canada’s political spectrum, asked me...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
How are we doing?
“Not too bad.” That’s the common reply on the prairies to a friendly “How are you?” It’s also common out here in my new home in the...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Learning from Rwanda
This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the massacre in Rwanda, a quarter-century since 800,000 people died at the hands of their...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Evangelicals, Ethics, and Supporting Donald Trump
Evangelicals—at least, we white ones—are having a hard time in the public eye these days. Perhaps you’ve noticed. Jerry Falwell, Jr.,...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Is Canada a Secular State?
Some have asked about getting hold of a hard-to-obtain article of mine: “Of Course Canada Is a ‘Secular’ State—Just not Secularist and...
John Stackhouse
20 min read
Gay-Straight Alliances, Secrecy, and the Public Trust
The word out of Alberta about Gay-Straight Alliance clubs (GSAs) hasn’t been good of late. According to the Calgary Herald, the Alberta...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Gretta Vosper and the United Church of Canada: What’s Going on?
Self-declared atheist Gretta Vosper held on to her pulpit in the United Church of Canada last week as denominational executives decided...
John Stackhouse
5 min read
Does Location Equal Importance?
NASA recently celebrated the end of the unlikely long run of the Kepler spacecraft. Sent up in 2009, this marvelous flying telescope...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Troubled in Toronto?
Did the Middle Ages just appear on the streets of Toronto? Last week, Muslims around the world observed the day (“Yom”) of Ashura, the...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
The Bad News in the Bad News
Hurricane Florence is devastating America’s east coast while super-typhoon Mangkhut lays waste to the northern Philippines. Religious...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Advice for Students in Unsafe Places
“But, Professor, I learned in church that God wrote the Ten Commandments himself on stone tablets and gave them to Moses. Isn’t that what...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Scandals, Scandals Everywhere: What Can Be Done?
It’s been a bad season for Catholics and evangelicals. Catholics are embroiled in a global scandal about who knew and did what about...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Due Process Is Boring . . . until Things Start Blowing Up
I once had a ruthless boss try to do me in… and due process, properly followed, rescued me. I was up for promotion from the rank of...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Why Christians Should Help Addicts Shoot Up…Safely
Two decades ago, a brilliant young nurse who was studying with us at Regent College asked me about the morality of offering harm...
John Stackhouse
3 min read