John Stackhouse
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Hoping to Get Noticed
I don’t get enough attention. You might think I do, but I don’t. Do you? I’ll bet you don’t, either. Some people get more attention than...
John Stackhouse
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One of These Things Is Not Supposed to Be Like the Others
Having spent considerable effort demonstrating that American evangelicals are not as bad as some people (including prominent American...
John Stackhouse
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Calm, Cool, and Collected
One of the most beloved features of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the “Collect,” the prayer that unites the voices of the...
John Stackhouse
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"Getting Ready for Glory"–Academic Style
A few posts ago, I enjoyed writing to you about Steve Bell’s grandmother as described in a story by Steve and a song by Carolyn Arends,...
John Stackhouse
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Practice Makes Perfect
Life here, now, is about life here, now, and also about the life here, then. We Christians live in the hope of the Second Coming of...
John Stackhouse
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Yes, Faithfulness DOES Include Effectiveness–and MAXIMUM Effectiveness
This post comes in response to people who raise a perennial issue, that of whether Christians should be concerned only with...
John Stackhouse
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"I Want to Be in Jerusalem": More from Walter Hilton
I’m very much enjoying David Jeffrey’s edition of Walter Hilton‘s 14C spiritual writings. Today I came across this parable and wanted you...
John Stackhouse
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All We Need Is Love–but Like This
I’ve been reading the fourteenth-century spiritual advisor Walter Hilton of late. He seems just the right sort of advisor: realistic,...
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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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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"Ring by Spring"? Giving Women Alternative Futures
Here in Upland, Indiana, I’ve been told by reliable people at Taylor University that many, many of their young women come to college with...
John Stackhouse
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Time to Get Out the Cheque-Book Again
Here is the link to my latest Faith Today column, which considers how many Christian organizations have weathered (or not) the recent...
John Stackhouse
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If Richard Dawkins Showed Up in Sunday School…
…would we be ready to respond? My most recent column in Faith Today notes that the New Atheists raise Old Questions that can be answered...
John Stackhouse
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In Memory of Clark Pinnock: A Ruthless Theologian
I published a version of the following article in tribute to Clark H. Pinnock on the occasion of his retirement some years ago. Clark...
John Stackhouse
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What Is a Church?
Here’s a recent e-mail: I came across an old web blog of yours that talks about parachurches (or as you call them paracongregationals). ...
John Stackhouse
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An 18C Exhortation to 21C Zealots
Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) was one of the leading lights of the 18C revival, a protegé of Isaac Watts whose writing helped convert...
John Stackhouse
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The Age of Sneers and Shrugs
George Steiner concludes his coruscating (if sometimes also dazzling, in both senses of the word) Lessons of the Masters with this...
John Stackhouse
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Suffering Is Normal—Now…
Regent Audio is making available my recent chapel talk on suffering as a free download here. I hope some of you will find it worthwhile....
John Stackhouse
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My Cute Little Cousins—Now on the Ground in Haiti and Uganda
I used to hug and tickle my cousins Kent and Jeannie when I was a Bible school student in Edmonton and lived with their parents for that...
John Stackhouse
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Finding the Will of God–or–Not Getting Lost in the Forest
Last December my family and I moved to North Vancouver, to a house surrounded by trees on the shoulder of Mount Seymour. Settlement ends...