John Stackhouse
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The Transfiguration—and the Exceeding of Expectations
Today, August 6, is the Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ. This astounding story offers the Church many lessons, and...
John Stackhouse
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The Ascension of the God Who Remains One of Us
Europeans do like their titles. And why shouldn’t they? They have some excellent ones. I was attending a meeting in Britain of university...
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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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
1 min read
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
2 min read
The Continual Unpredictability of a Straight Line
As one looks at Jesus in the Gospels, one sees the Lord carving through the world as a straight line of integrity, purpose, holiness, and...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Image Search
Sitting in our bedroom for my morning time of prayer today, reading Aleksandr Men’s An Inner Step toward God again, slowly, I came across...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Jesus of the Scars
Perhaps no war left so many veterans alive but horribly scarred as did the First World War, that war of gases and incendiaries, bayonets...
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
6 min read
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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As St. Nicholas Would Agree, So Much More and Better
Friend Dennis Danielson, professor of English at the University of British Columbia, sent along this passage from the seventeenth-century...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
How the Baby Protects Us
There is nothing like truth to extinguish pride: Here is the way things really are. Here is the way I really am. This is what really...
John Stackhouse
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All We Need Is Love–but Like This
I’ve been reading the fourteenth-century spiritual advisor Walter Hilton of late. He seems just the right sort of advisor: realistic,...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
The Ascension: Did Jesus Pass Saturn on His Way Up?
A new friend writes: George Stroumboulopoulos had Bill Maher on his program talking about his film ‘Religulous’. Bill asked a question,...
John Stackhouse
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Holy Weekend Thoughts
Over the last few years, I’ve offered readers some musings on Good Friday and Easter. For those who missed them the first time ’round: On...
John Stackhouse
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A Palm Sunday Thought
Lo, your King comes to you, mighty and imposing, if also in need of protection, in an armoured limousine surrounded by bodyguards, police...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
The Helpful Strangeness of Jesus
A friend recently confided in me that he was afraid of dying. A lifelong Christian, he has recently been plagued by doubts, and...
John Stackhouse
6 min read
Why Christianity Is Believable: Part Four
Two data: That’s all I need. The two facts are (a) an empty tomb, and (b) enthusiastic disciples. Let’s see what might follow. After his...