I’d Like to Have an Argument, Please
I recently tweeted the link to an article I found interesting. One of my followers shot back, however, this furious riposte: “This is a...
John Stackhouse
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Jimmy (and Billy) Kimmel and the Power of One
Television audiences throughout North America and beyond have been riveted by the recent opening to talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel’s...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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It's Just Not True: American Evangelicals Do Not, in Fact, Behave as Badly as Everyone Else
Christian Smith has written about it briefly. Brad Wright has written about it at book length. And I’ve written about it in a nice, big...
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