Media

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

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Evangelicals, Elites, and Alternative Facts

Molly Worthen, a reputable scholar of American evangelicalism who teaches at the estimable University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill,...

John Stackhouse

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Milo, Maher, and Muck

I have never watched Bill Maher’s show in my life. I’ve seen clips of it, and of him guesting on other people’s shows, and there’s been...

John Stackhouse

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FAITH

God Confirmed Missing in Canadian Public Discourse: The Assisted-Suicide Debate

As Canada has begun a new era of officially sanctioned, physician-assisted suicide, one is struck by the almost complete absence of a...

John Stackhouse

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My New Venture in Weekly Blogging

I’ve joined the team of broadcaster Lorna Dueck, whose TV show “Context with Lorna Dueck” is seen coast-to-coast in Canada. Her shows are...

John Stackhouse

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More of Me (Irresistible, I Know…)

First, if you don’t SUBSCRIBE yet, please do. I blog only impulsively, even desultorily, and I don’t want to waste anyone’s time checking...

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Connecting with Millennials et alia

I need to crowdsource this concern via my blog, and I’ll likely advertise it on FB and Twitter, too. (Why, yes, there is a little irony...

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Holding One’s Nose to Defend Charlie Hebdo

“Secular society” does not mean that nothing is sacred. The common good is sacred. The welfare of society is sacred. And by “sacred” in...

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Why Spend $200M on a Big, Splashy, Comic-Book Movie?

UPDATE (24 March 2014): Ralph has just had to withdraw from the course to fly to New Zealand for 7 months to produce the sequel to...

John Stackhouse

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CIVILITY

“Hell and Mr. Fudge”: Available Now on DVD

I have been privileged to come across a number of interestingly independent thinkers among more-or-less orthodox Christians over the...

“A” Matters as Much as “B” Does, so “B” Doesn’t Matter: Me

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“A” Matters as Much as “B” Does, so “B” Doesn’t Matter: Me

Pope Francis has recently made the apparently newsworthy suggestion that the Great Commandments matter more than other commandments, and...

John Stackhouse

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“God Loves Uganda,” but Its Director Doesn’t Love Me

Oh, boy, does he not. HERE is the Christianity Today version of the remarks I made at Vancouver’s DOXA film festival. HERE is Roger Ross...

John Stackhouse

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CIVILITY

Neil Reynolds, R.I.P.

Veteran newspaperman Neil Reynolds died last Sunday at the age of 72. He and I share two cities: Kingston, Ontario (where each of us was...

John Stackhouse

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In Defense of “Stale” Opinions

We NFL fans have just finished a weekend full of playoff excitement: It’s all on the line, the stakes are absolutely high, someone’s...

John Stackhouse

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The Anti-Islamic Movie and Cartoons: Let’s Not Defend Literary Litter

What is the point of the cartoon? The “journalists” at Charlie Hebdo published cartoons insulting the Prophet Muhammad. They’re stupid...

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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...

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Evangelicals Not as Bad as (We) Reported: The Article Reprinted

Here is the article to which I refer in the following post, originally published in Books & Culture. ====== What Scandal? Whose...

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