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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
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Fighting Our Phobias

While the U. S. President continues to wrestle with the American judiciary over whether people wanting to enter the United States can and...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

CURRENT EVENTS

Did God Choose President Trump?

ICYMI on my blog for “Context with Lorna Dueck”: The inauguration of President Donald Trump was replete with prayers, scripture readings,...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

MULTICULTURALISM

Milo, Maher, and Muck

I have never watched Bill Maher’s show in my life. I’ve seen clips of it, and of him guesting on other people’s shows, and there’s been...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

ETHICS

Tolerance for Diversity Breaks Out at McGill

[This column was originally posted on “Context with Lorna Dueck” six months ago. Alas, the issues remain live all over the continent.]...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

FAITH

God Confirmed Missing in Canadian Public Discourse: The Assisted-Suicide Debate

As Canada has begun a new era of officially sanctioned, physician-assisted suicide, one is struck by the almost complete absence of a...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

MISSION

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

2 min read

EVANGELICALISM

Two Straws in the Wind: Evangelicals and the US Election

Factoid 1: Franklin Graham all-but-explicitly endorsed Donald Trump on the eve of the election. Factoid 2: Wheaton College students,...

John Stackhouse

4 min read

ETHICS

Why Voting for a Third-Party Presidential Candidate Is Not a Valid Option

As we Canadians observe the American presidential election in various ratios of bemusement and horror, one position seems to stick out as...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

GENDER

Bathrooms, Identity, Rights, and Wisdom: Helping All Students in the Light of Trans* Issues

[The following is a re-posting from my weblog “On Second Thought” published weekly at ContextwithLornaDueck.com] Two years ago, the...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

ETHICS

How to End “Working Poverty” in Canada

[The following is a re-posting from my weblog “On Second Thought” posted weekly on ContextwithLornaDueck.com] There should be no such...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

ETHICS

A Government Department of Euthanasia? Please, No

[This is another re-posting of a column earlier posted on the “Context with Lorna Dueck” website, for which I write weekly] ====== “I’m...

John Stackhouse

5 min read

CURRENT EVENTS

The Conservative Party Moves On–and So Should Everyone Else

The Conservative Party of Canada just voted to remove the traditional definition of marriage (one man + one woman) from its platform and...

John Stackhouse

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CIVILITY

“Love Your Enemies”: The 24-Karat Golden Rule for Politicians

[The following is an edited version of the address I delivered at the Prayer Breakfast of the Conservative Party of Canada in Vancouver...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

MULTICULTURALISM

The New Refugees Scare Me Too

[This is another post lightly adapted from one originally written for my blog, “On Second Thought,” offered on the website for “Context...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

ETHICS

When Medication & Therapy Aren’t Enough

[This is another post from my weblog, “On Second Thought,” posted on the website of Lorna Dueck’s show, “Context.”] ============= Rwanda...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

MULTICULTURALISM

Neither Severity nor Sentimentality: Responding Well to Terror

The following is another contribution to my weblog, called “On Second Thought,” originally published via Context with Lorna Dueck....

John Stackhouse

3 min read

ETHICS

Legalizing Marijuana: Facing the Realities of Altering Reality

[Here is another blog post from the weblog I’m now writing for “Context with Lorna Dueck.” The full bank of them is here.] As Parliament...

John Stackhouse

4 min read

EVANGELICALISM

Trump, American Evangelicals, and “the Establishment”

I know, I know: You’re sick of reading about Trump, thinking about Trump, waking up from nightmares about Trump…me, too. Still, a friend...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

EVANGELICALISM

Mr. Trump, Evangelicals, The Globe, and Crucial Distinctions

Canada’s newspaper of record, the Toronto Globe and Mail, expresses astonishment that Donald Trump, “a profane, thrice-married worshipper...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

CIVILITY

“Conservative” Shouldn’t Mean Just “Grumpy and Complacent in Privilege&#8221

This article, touted by a good friend of mine, but written by someone not known to me, is a prime example of why I stopped subscribing...

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Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.'s blog has moved to www.thinkbettermedia.ca/blog as of August 2023 visit there for the latest posts and news!