John Stackhouse
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Mike Pence and the Liberal Moral Police
American Vice-President Mike Pence set commentators across the cultural spectrum all a-twitter this past week as it emerged that he had...
John Stackhouse
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Avoiding Compassion Fatigue in an ADHD World
Remember Biafra? If you’re of a certain age—likely, 60 years old or more—you might remember magazine covers and TV shows devoted to the...
John Stackhouse
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Harrison Ford Teaches Us a Lesson
Harrison Ford has acted in a lot of roles. But recently, he played a part in a real-life morality play. And thereby he can teach us all a...
John Stackhouse
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The Cost of Free Speech on Campus
There is much to fear and loathe in the latest example of militant and violent campus intolerance. At Middlebury College in Vermont,...
John Stackhouse
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Fighting Our Phobias
While the U. S. President continues to wrestle with the American judiciary over whether people wanting to enter the United States can and...
John Stackhouse
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Successful–or Merely Popular?
The new season of “Black Mirror,” a “Twilight Zone” TV program now produced by Netflix, opens with an episode nicely terrifying for our...
John Stackhouse
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Milo, Maher, and Muck
I have never watched Bill Maher’s show in my life. I’ve seen clips of it, and of him guesting on other people’s shows, and there’s been...
John Stackhouse
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Wisdom from Bonhoeffer…for Everyone, Not Just Someone Else
I am conducting a seminar this semester on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s great work, Ethics. In preparing for a class next week, I came across a...
John Stackhouse
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Tolerance for Diversity Breaks Out at McGill
[This column was originally posted on “Context with Lorna Dueck” six months ago. Alas, the issues remain live all over the continent.]...
John Stackhouse
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God Confirmed Missing in Canadian Public Discourse: The Assisted-Suicide Debate
As Canada has begun a new era of officially sanctioned, physician-assisted suicide, one is struck by the almost complete absence of a...
John Stackhouse
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Why Voting for a Third-Party Presidential Candidate Is Not a Valid Option
As we Canadians observe the American presidential election in various ratios of bemusement and horror, one position seems to stick out as...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Bathrooms, Identity, Rights, and Wisdom: Helping All Students in the Light of Trans* Issues
[The following is a re-posting from my weblog “On Second Thought” published weekly at ContextwithLornaDueck.com] Two years ago, the...
John Stackhouse
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How to End “Working Poverty” in Canada
[The following is a re-posting from my weblog “On Second Thought” posted weekly on ContextwithLornaDueck.com] There should be no such...
John Stackhouse
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The Dangers of Forgiveness
[This is another reposting from the blog I have over at “Context with Lorna Dueck“] Forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts we can give...
John Stackhouse
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Do Sports Matter to God?
With the National Football League season just underway, pennant races on in MLB, university and high school teams soon moving from...
John Stackhouse
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A Government Department of Euthanasia? Please, No
[This is another re-posting of a column earlier posted on the “Context with Lorna Dueck” website, for which I write weekly] ====== “I’m...
John Stackhouse
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Installation Address at Crandall University
As we approach the start of a new academic year, I’ve returned to the Maritimes after a summer at home in North Vancouver to take up my...
John Stackhouse
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Abortion and the U.S. Election
As so many conservative Christians, including some prominent evangelicals, seem to be fixated on the single question of abortion and...
John Stackhouse
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Life on the Fifth of July
We Canadians and Americans have just emerged from the holiday weekend celebrating our respective countries’ nativities and histories....
John Stackhouse
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“Love Your Enemies”: The 24-Karat Golden Rule for Politicians
[The following is an edited version of the address I delivered at the Prayer Breakfast of the Conservative Party of Canada in Vancouver...