Current Events 8/9

The Manhattan Declaration: A Waste of Everybody's Time?

Friends and students have asked what I think about The Manhattan Declaration. Not all friends or students have asked, to be sure! Indeed,...

John Stackhouse

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A Trial Begins

Monday morning, May 25, a trial begins that will make history in Canada with reverberations for the worldwide Anglican Communion. Four...

John Stackhouse

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MEDIA

Obama's Gaffe–and Mine–and Yours…

It may not be obvious at first glance, but President Barack Obama is a lot like me. We both used to live in Hyde Park and attend the...

John Stackhouse

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APOLOGETICS

The Bus Wars

We all now know about the city bus ad campaigns, first started in Britain by secularists who encouraged readers that “There’s probably no...

John Stackhouse

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Christians and the Public Good

Can Christian organizations insist that their employees believe Christian doctrines and practice Christian ethics? Not as often as they...

John Stackhouse

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EVANGELICALISM

When Is a Conservative (Evangelical) Not a Conservative?

(I know I just wrote I have to sign off until the New Year, but I just can’t help myself this morning…) Over the last several decades,...

John Stackhouse

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This Week at Regent and UBC

For those of you in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and particularly in the Vancouver area, here are a couple of events this...

John Stackhouse

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American Evangelicals and Politics

I discuss a number of recent books by American evangelicals on politics in Christianity Today magazine here. I also take some time to...

John Stackhouse

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Praying for Your Enemies

One of Jesus’ most unexpected and difficult commands comes to mind as both Canada and the United States are embroiled in elections, and...

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Sarah Palin and the (White) Evangelical Binary Mind

The question I set before myself today is the one I threw out a few days ago to y’all, namely, what does it say about American...

John Stackhouse

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CIVILITY

The Boomerangs of Sarcasm and Self-Righteousness

I’ve been struck in the exchanges some of us have been having about American politics (see the previous entry and comments) about the...

John Stackhouse

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EVANGELICALISM

If Sarah Palin Is What It Takes to Galvanize American Evangelicals…

…well, what else is there to say?

John Stackhouse

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Gilles Duceppe, Opus Dei, and the Ghost of Old Quebec

Gilles Duceppe, head of the Bloc Québecois (the separatist party in the Canadian province of Quebec), is fuming that Nicole Charbonneau...

John Stackhouse

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Scot McKnight and His Gang on "Making the Best of It"

Überblogger Scot McKnight, Professor of New Testament at North Park in Chicago and an indefatigable and highly esteemed writer, editor,...

John Stackhouse

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Why I Signed the Yale Response to "A Common Word"

Over the last few weeks, various Christians have contacted me because they are troubled over encountering my name amidst dozens of other...

John Stackhouse

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Why Some Things Are Better: The Awful Possibility Ignored by Wehner and Levin

An article in this month’s Commentary, by Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin, speaks of “Crimes, Drugs, and Welfare–and Other Good News.”...

John Stackhouse

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Politics, patience, and power…and theology

Politicians, we all know, are among the least respected people in our society. We assume the worst about them and nod our heads sagely as...

John Stackhouse

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"Red-Letter Christians": A Bad Idea with a Bad Name, Alas

Being a “red-letter Christian” sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? Tony Campolo, professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University,...

John Stackhouse

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