John Stackhouse
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A Bestselling Thriller Author Gets Good Friday Wrong
In his popular recent novel, The Order, thriller writer Daniel Silva decides in the name of Judaism to launch a missile at Christianity....
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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Easter: Who Needs It?
The world’s great religions offer what millions of people want: a sensible, straightforward path to life. That’s why those religions are...
John Stackhouse
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What We Can Learn from Easter 2018
I write this on Good Friday 2018, but I could have written something like it on any day, any year. For the more some things change, it...
John Stackhouse
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Some Tenebrae Musings
As the time for Tenebrae (Latin “darkness”) services has come again, one thinks of the shrinking circle of light in the Passion narrative...
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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Canada: Getting Worse—and Better
The name of our national holiday is, not to put too fine a point on it, very Canadian. The first day of July commemorates the July 1,...
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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Holy Week Posts 2016
I’m late publishing this kind of post this year, but in case you’d like some material for further reflection this Eastertide: On...
John Stackhouse
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What Will We Want Jesus to Want from Us?
Reading in Matthew 14 this morning, I was impressed afresh at the Apostle Peter’s audacity. I wonder if I, on the verge of 2016, will...
John Stackhouse
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Help for Busy Advent/Christmas Preachers
As I’ve done before, I list here some previous blog posts relevant to the season in case this can help you in your sermon preparation....
John Stackhouse
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Franklin Graham Converts to Islam
ASHEVILLE, NC (RNS) — In an announcement that has shocked the evangelical world, evangelist Franklin Graham, son of the world-famous...
John Stackhouse
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The Great Transfusion
As we travel through Lent, we recall Luther’s speaking, in a letter to Georg Spenlein (1516), of Holy Week as the occasion of the Great...
John Stackhouse
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Christmas Thoughts toward New Year’s Eve
Not only do I hope that the combination of Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve—two bacchanaliae designed to subvert and submerge any “Christmas...
John Stackhouse
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Advent/Christmas Posts
I’ve had the sort of year that has not lent itself to blogging. But as we approach Christmas, let me offer you a selection of...
John Stackhouse
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“But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming?”
If life has been disappointing, disillusioning, and worse—shocking, grievous, doomed—then what we crave is the predictable, the...
John Stackhouse
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Resurrection…to More of the Same?
Yesterday was the big celebration of the astonishing gift of “another life,” as they say in video games. How will you spend it?
John Stackhouse
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Holy Week Posts
Over the last few years, I’ve posted several reflections pertinent to Holy Week. Some of you (especially those of you preparing sermons!)...
John Stackhouse
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Christmas in … well, May (2014)
Christmas has just come and gone again. You’re a smart person so I’ll ask you: How much did you learn about Christmas this year? It’s a...