Current Events 7/9

Canadian Christians and the New Office of Religious Freedom

Canadian readers of this weblog will know that the current federal government has been considering establishing an Office of Religious...

John Stackhouse

5 min read

CIVILITY

Occupy St. Paul's? The Occupy Movement Descends into Farce

UPDATE: I’ll warn you that this post is cranky. I’ve left it as I wrote it so that the comments that follow will make sense, particularly...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

More on InSite

Recently our friends at the Cardus Centre for Public Renewal published an edition of their legal journal, LexView, that criticizes the...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

"Why I Help Addicts Shoot Up"–The Lecture (UPDATE)

Meera Bai and I spoke in person on our reasons to support InSite, Vancouver’s safe injection site that got a stay of execution from the...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

Why Evangelicals Should Be Glad We Weren't Asked to Pray at 9/11 Services

Evangelical Christians have been complaining about not being included in various commemorations of 9/11, whether in New York City,...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

Richard Mouw on Abraham Kuyper

There’s an excellent new book out from my friend Richard Mouw, philosopher and president of Fuller Theological Seminary in California:...

John Stackhouse

4 min read

Of Course Religion Should Be Taught in Public Schools

The recent controversies in Quebec about the government there requiring a course on ethics and religious culture to be taken by every...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

Lecture on Homosexuality Now Available

Since, as you know, I try to avoid controversy as much as possible and simply repeat bromides and other crowd-pleasers all I can, I’m...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

"Why I Help Addicts Shoot Up"

This is the title of an article written by nurse Meera Bai, with help from her supportive Regent College professor, which is a Christian...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

CIVILITY

Human Rights Commission: Some Impressive Work

Not all Human Rights Commissions in Canada delight me in everything they do. (I’ve had a good breakfast this morning so I’m in an...

John Stackhouse

10 min read

"Shariah: The Threat to America": A Commendable Worry Badly Addressed

The Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., recently released a report called Shariah: The Threat to America that sounds the...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

CIVILITY

Ground Zero Mosque, Part Two

Part of what motivates people to oppose a mosque at Ground Zero is worry that any form of Islam, except perhaps the most liberal,...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

A Better Way on Prostitution

Julia Beazley, of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, writes on a recent report that analyzes Sweden’s ten-year-old campaign to reduce...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

CURRENT EVENTS

Woe, Canada: A Bad, Bad Decision

The Canadian census has for decades asked a question about religious affiliation, thus providing Canadian scholars with data our American...

John Stackhouse

8 min read

Marci McDonald, "The Armageddon Factor": Part 3: Conclusions (UPDATED)

I have argued so far that Marci McDonald’s book has so many evident problems that it is hard to trust what she says in any areas one...

John Stackhouse

6 min read

Marci McDonald, "The Armageddon Factor": Part 2: Interpretation

In the previous post, I suggested that Marci McDonald blurs important distinctions among various religious groups, movements, and...

John Stackhouse

7 min read

Marci McDonald, "The Armageddon Factor": Part 1: Information

Marci McDonald is described on the flyleaf of her new book, The Armageddon Factor (Random House Canada), as “one of Canada’s most...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

Marci McDonald’s "The Armaggedon Factor": The Unravelling Begins

Marci McDonald, who has won many prizes and held many prestigious positions in Canadian journalism, has just released a very bad book on...

John Stackhouse

3 min read