Leadership

Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
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John Stackhouse

4 min read

Should the Statues Come Down?

It’s easy to mock all the statue-removers as crazy mobs accomplishing nothing on behalf of the real victims of racism, past and present....

John Stackhouse

3 min read

LEADERSHIP

Does Your Board Know Its Business?

As the controversy continues surrounding Willow Creek Community Church’s pastor Bill Hybels, its Board of Elders has offered a public...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

MULTICULTURALISM

Beware the Politicians Crying, “Hijab! Hijab!”

This past week Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull proposed to lengthen the pathway to citizenship in his country while also...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

MULTICULTURALISM

The Cost of Free Speech on Campus

There is much to fear and loathe in the latest example of militant and violent campus intolerance. At Middlebury College in Vermont,...

John Stackhouse

4 min read

CIVILITY

Justice Means Justice for Everyone

The high-profile case of Wheaton College and Dr Larycia Hawkins continues to grind on. Full disclosure: I earned my MA there; I taught...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

GENDER

Better Late than Never…

When I arrived at Regent College in 1998, I looked forward to a lot of good things. One of them was to move on from the debates of the...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

CHURCH

Evangelical Women and Pastoral Ministry

For (too) many evangelicals, this title contains a contradiction, if not an outright scandal: Evangelical women are not supposed to...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

MULTICULTURALISM

Another Way Terrorists Win

Bernard Drainville, the Parti Québecois cabinet minister responsible for the controversial Values Charter now before the National...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

MULTICULTURALISM

Not “Secular” in Quebec, but SecularIST

The Parti Québecois’s now-notorious “Values Charter” has received its proper share of ignominy, albeit rather belatedly. The thing was a...

John Stackhouse

5 min read

ETHICS

The Supreme Court Protects the Hateful “Hate Speech” Law

A rump of the Supreme Court of Canada (several justices did not participate in the ruling) voted unanimously to uphold parts of...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

CHURCH

Some Early Thoughts on the Pope’s Resignation

• As Cardinal Ratzinger, this pope had intimate knowledge of the declining years of John Paul II, even commenting at least once that that...

Of Course It Matters that Mitt Romney Is a Mormon

John Stackhouse

2 min read

LEADERSHIP

Of Course It Matters that Mitt Romney Is a Mormon

(Longtime readers of this weblog will know that I published a version of this post some years ago. But it seems, somehow, still...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

BETTER SPEAKING AND WRITING

Find Someone Good? Go Deeper–Notwithstanding…

In a world of voices—what seems often to be a maelstrom, even a cacophony, of competing signals—how wonderful it is to find someone...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

CHURCH

“Pussy Riot” and Churchly Hypocrisy

I’ve been tweeting occasionally in disgust over the way the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church has been responding to the “Pussy...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

MONEY

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

14 min read

GENDER

"Conversion Narratives" about Gender

Dr. Alan Johnson of Wheaton College has recently produced a new collection of essays on gender. This one is quite new: It offers the...

John Stackhouse

4 min read

MULTICULTURALISM

The Manhattan Declaration: A Waste of Everybody's Time?

Friends and students have asked what I think about The Manhattan Declaration. Not all friends or students have asked, to be sure! Indeed,...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

LEADERSHIP

Our Own Worst (Media) Enemies

I’ve recently written here about how Christians, and pastors in particular, and evangelical pastors in particular particular, complain...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

CHURCH

Research, Teaching and Writing: Other Careers than the Professoriate

Some readers of my page on “Thinking about a Ph.D.” have asked me to expand on my brief mention of “other spheres” in which one can...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

CHURCH

Does the Trinity Prove Anything about Gender? Not Much

Amid all the arguments among Christians regarding the roles of men and women in home, church, and society, one of the most prominent...

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Thoughts on CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE John G. Stackhouse, Jr.'s blog has moved to www.thinkbettermedia.ca/blog as of August 2023 visit there for the latest posts and news!

Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.'s blog has moved to www.thinkbettermedia.ca/blog as of August 2023 visit there for the latest posts and news!