Surely You Can Work a Little Harder…
Some of us need to work harder than we do. Students fool themselves, thinking they are “studying” when they are just hanging out with...

John Stackhouse
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Give God What He Wants
“Did you have a good Christmas?” Kids know how to interpret that question. It means, “How was your haul? Did you get everything you...

John Stackhouse
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Moving Decisions
My beloved and I have decided we ought to move away from our little house in the northeast corner of Vancouver across the Second Narrows...

John Stackhouse
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The Shack 4: Some Celebrations
Having defended the genre of The Shack, and having offered some theological demurrals, let’s conclude with some delight in the good...

John Stackhouse
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The Shack 3: Theological Concerns (Part 2)
Let’s pick up where we left off, so . . . Fourth, The Shack skims briefly over the surface of theology of religions, raising the question...

John Stackhouse
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The Shack 2: Some Theological Concerns (Part 1)
The Shack dives into the deep end of the religious pool, swimming around in the Biggest Questions: the divine nature, the Trinity, the...

John Stackhouse
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When People Do Bad Things to Us . . .
A friend and former student wrote recently of having her heart broken by a man who had told her he loved her and wanted to make a life...

John Stackhouse
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A Prayer of Dedication
Friends, I’m heading off to Bangalore, India, for the next week to teach pastors and graduate students at Dr. Ken Gnanakan’s ACTS...

John Stackhouse
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What Do You Want for Christmas?
During my commute today, I listened to a lecture on CD by colleague Iain Provan, professor of Old Testament here at Regent, on the story...

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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Everything Up in (Holy) Smoke
“I wonder what would happen,” reflects author Mark Alan Powell, “if we collected the offering on Sunday morning, set the plates on the...

John Stackhouse
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