John Stackhouse
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Superb Christmas "Radio"
As we head toward Advent and brace for the inescapable sugary fog of commercial “holiday” music playing everywhere, here’s a terrific...
John Stackhouse
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Best Hallowe'en Costumes Ever?
We take a brief break from our usual seriousness to ask this timely, topical question: What’s the best Hallowe’en costume you’ve ever...
John Stackhouse
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Happy Canada Day & Happy Insurrection Day!
Okay, I’m just kidding about the second one. But please, American friends, forgive me. My branch of the Stackhouse family fled north at...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Beyond Sentimentality, Moralism, or Mysticism: A "Crucifiable" Jesus
I once encountered a Marxist debater who was slicing and dicing a mild-mannered Christian speaker in London’s Hyde Park. The Marxist was...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Give God What He Wants
“Did you have a good Christmas?” Kids know how to interpret that question. It means, “How was your haul? Did you get everything you...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Christmas Movies: Recommendations?
Our gang watched Scrooged last night, one of the two best renditions of A Christmas Carol ever filmed, the other being the Alistair Sim...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Merry Yule, Y'all
My family and I are about to move from Vancouver to North Vancouver, a move of about seven minutes’ drive across the Second Narrows...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Canada: A Good Place to Live
It’s Canada Day up here, and we’re all busy (once we’ve enjoyed a good sleep-in) doing what Canadians do to celebrate our country, which...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Empty Tomb or Empty Gesture?
One of Canada’s leading newspapers, the Toronto Globe and Mail, reported this past Easter weekend on a local church who decided not to...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
The Subversiveness of Easter
What in the world is Easter about? It makes no sense to celebrate the gruesome death of a minor country preacher, making a virtue, as...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
"Let There Be Peace on Earth…"
As 2008 dawns in the midst of the Twelve Days of Christmas, how we long for peace: for shalom, that great Biblical word for the...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Fresh Wind: An Advent Meditation
Hear the word of the Lord from Isaiah: “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For darkness...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
What Do You Want for Christmas?
During my commute today, I listened to a lecture on CD by colleague Iain Provan, professor of Old Testament here at Regent, on the story...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
How Physics Killed Santa Claus
“Yes, Virginia,” wrote Francis P. Church, editor of the New York Sun, in 1897, “there is a Santa Claus.” But when Virginia got a little...
John Stackhouse
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What’s Good about (Bloody) Good Friday? Some Thoughts on the Atonement
A correspondent recently wrote: “I’m more baffled than ever about the Atonement. I sometimes feel like banging my head against the wall...