John Stackhouse
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Knowing or Trusting? Which Would You Prefer?
In the recent Academy Award-winning movie Arrival, one character asks another a compelling question: If you could see your whole life...
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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When Medication & Therapy Aren’t Enough
[This is another post from my weblog, “On Second Thought,” posted on the website of Lorna Dueck’s show, “Context.”] ============= Rwanda...
John Stackhouse
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Neither Severity nor Sentimentality: Responding Well to Terror
The following is another contribution to my weblog, called “On Second Thought,” originally published via Context with Lorna Dueck....
John Stackhouse
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What Would It Take to Forgive Mel Gibson?
Mel Gibson is still among the most reviled people in Hollywood. We all know about his bitter, violent anti-Semitism. And there’s more in...
John Stackhouse
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“Why, God?” Asked the American People, and Would Not Stay for an Answer
The number one column on the New York Times website right now is Maureen Dowd’s “Why, God?” It features counsel on the problem of evil,...
John Stackhouse
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Evil Encore
In the wake of the Newtown school shooting, I’ve been asked to comment since I am a theologian by profession and the author of a book on...
John Stackhouse
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Are You Lovable?
This apparently bizarre question pops up over and over again in Christian worship and theology. It was posed to me recently by a friend...
John Stackhouse
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Should the Studio Have Pulled “The Dark Knight Rises”?
(This post is co-authored with my eldest son, Trevor, who is a graduate of Capilano University’s film program and Simon Fraser University...
John Stackhouse
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Christianity the Worst Source of Evil?
A friend writes: I have run across the following issue a lot recently: the blaming of Christianity (and belief in God generally) for all...
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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Was Breivik a Christian? If So, of What Sort? Better Still, Who Cares?
Margaret Mitchell, Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, writes a piece on all the nonsense (and worse) surrounding the...
John Stackhouse
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Law and Order: Some Vancouverite Reflections
By now many of you have seen clips or photos of the criminal nonsense that afflicted the streets and businesses of downtown Vancouver...
John Stackhouse
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Is There Gratuitous Suffering?
A new interlocutor, G. Ehrlich, has engaged me in comments on the previous post on a range of matters. But, in his view, the main matters...
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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Hell and the Goodness of God
At the conclusion of my course in Systematic Theology this term, I offered a lecture on “Hell and the Goodness of God.” I give the same...
John Stackhouse
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The Last Person to Appear on YouTube
Well, it had to happen. Eventually even your servant was going to get caught on camera and posted to YouTube. I was in the Toronto area...
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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Animal Suffering/Natural Evil before the Fall
This past week, in teaching at Regent and in lecturing at UBC, the same question came up in both contexts: What are we Christians to make...
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...