John Stackhouse
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Holy Week Prayers: What Do We Really Want?
Holy Week brings into focus a number of Big Questions. Among the most searching is this: What do we want? In particular, what do we want...
John Stackhouse
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Jimmy (and Billy) Kimmel and the Power of One
Television audiences throughout North America and beyond have been riveted by the recent opening to talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel’s...
John Stackhouse
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Evangelicals, Elites, and Alternative Facts
Molly Worthen, a reputable scholar of American evangelicalism who teaches at the estimable University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill,...
John Stackhouse
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Beware the Power of “Story”
“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.” Well, let’s see. Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and...
John Stackhouse
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On Forbearance and Listening
My wife once brought me up short, years ago, by suggesting that a man telling women to calm down when they wanted to express their pain...
John Stackhouse
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Well, Maybe, Sister Anne…
Concerned friends have asked me about Anne Graham Lotz’s recent call to prayer that will culminate tomorrow (July 7) in a 7-hour time of...
John Stackhouse
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The Giveaway’s Gone…but the Launch Looms
Thanks to the good people at Goodreads and Oxford University Press, 10 of the 450+ people who signed up for the Goodreads Giveaway of...
John Stackhouse
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Merton Channels Screwtape
Here’s a challenging passage from Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation that will bring many of us up short: The devil is not afraid...
John Stackhouse
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C. S. Lewis and the Test of Coherence
In Miracles (the book that gets my vote as the best generally overlooked book by C. S. Lewis), Lewis makes a point about the plausibility...
John Stackhouse
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Before You Oppose It…
Sen. Rob Portman is making news as the first Republican notable to come out for the legalization of homosexual marriage in the United...
John Stackhouse
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Basilea Schlink: Searching for Clues…
A previous generation of Christian readers was more familiar with the name of Basilea Schlink (1904-2001), a German mystic who wrote...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Theory Ain’t Belief–Thank God!
Philosopher Alvin Plantinga buries a little gem of insight in a footnote to his massive Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that...
John Stackhouse
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Arguments from Design Don’t Prove; They Show
One can hardly get through an issue of a popular science magazine these days without having one or another of two gospels preached at...
John Stackhouse
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Analytic Thinking Promotes Qualified Belief, not Disbelief
Some colleagues in psychology at UBC recently published a study that suggests that analytic thinking tends to promote religious...
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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I Tim. 2:15ff., Gender, and "Just Obeying What Scripture Clearly Says"
In my book Finally Feminist I refer to I Timothy 2:15ff as the passage that finally clued me in to an important truth about Biblical...
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...
John Stackhouse
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"Expelled" and Intelligent Design: Thanks for the Help!
We weren’t able to go to “Expelled”‘s preview last night, but if I do get to see it soon (we usually watch movies at home, since some...
John Stackhouse
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"Expelled" and Intelligent Design: Help, Please
I’ve been given comp tix to see “Expelled” in a couple of days, just before it opens here in Canada. How can I not? Several of the Big...
John Stackhouse
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I'm Certain that There Are Two Kinds of Certainty
There is a lot of huffing and puffing nowadays about “postmodernism” and “skepticism” and “certainty” and “absolute truth.” And it’s been...