John Stackhouse
2 min read
Power vs. THE Power
Just a quick thought as I sit in the Moncton Airport waiting to fly west. New Brunswick is Canada’s only officially bilingual province....
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Too Cool for the Gospel?
One could read a lot of pages of GQ (and its brethren) before one would expect to find a fair-minded portrait of evangelical...
John Stackhouse
5 min read
Allah and Yhwh…and Tash and Aslan
Just a little more on this issue of “Which God is which?” As I implied at the end of my previous post, but now will say explicitly: I...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?
Prof. Larycia Hawkins of Wheaton College, Illinois, made news when she said she would wear a headscarf (or hijab) through Advent in...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Preaching that Avoids the Scandal…and the Centre
I’ve been impressed recently in reading the early chapters of the Book of Acts by the confrontational clarity and boldness of the...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
The Cultural Gap Widens
When I was a kid growing up in Ontario, our church used to teach us ways in which we could signal to unbelievers that we were Christians...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Evangelism: As Strategic as Electoral Politics?
James Surowiecki writes in The New Yorker about so-called micro-targeting research that intends to find those precious U.S. voters who...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Defining God
In a lovely note from someone in a recent audience of mine, two questions were raised. I thought you might like to read how I...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Where Does the World Need Me?
The Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal does lots of good things, including publishing–electronically and online–sharp-edged articles that...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
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
3 min read
“Screw You” Evangelism
It’s one thing for enthusiastic believers to want to talk about their religion. After all, people who are enthusiastic about a new band,...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
More Video: Stanford Multi-Faith Seminar 2010
Two events in which your servant was involved are now available for video (and audio) consumption. The first is a threefold presentation...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Communicating Clearly…or Not
Here is my latest column for Faith Today on why it’s so hard to communicate matters of faith clearly nowadays and what we can do about it.
John Stackhouse
3 min read
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
3 min read
Does TV Simply Preclude Good Preaching?
The news this week is that the struggle between Robert Schuller père et fils continues to diminish the ministry that has made them both...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Faith, not Just Good Works, Needed in Africa–according to an Atheist
You’ll be seeing this one flash around the Internet, I’ll bet. I just got it and read it (thanks, Christina!) and want you to see it,...