Sex & Sexuality

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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
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John Stackhouse

4 min read

Body-Shaming? Or Education-Honouring?

It’s back-to-school time and, for many Canadian pupils, it’s back to the demands of school dress codes. Not just in private schools, but...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

GENDER

Bathrooms, Identity, Rights, and Wisdom: Helping All Students in the Light of Trans* Issues

[The following is a re-posting from my weblog “On Second Thought” published weekly at ContextwithLornaDueck.com] Two years ago, the...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

ETHICS

It’s Time: Have a Debate and Sort This Out

Christians all over the English-speaking world, as well as many beyond, are discussing the legitimacy of same-sex marriage and a whole...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

MISSION

On Trusting God Rather than Freaking Out

I’ve been enjoying teaching the basic concepts of my book Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World to students gathered...

John Stackhouse

5 min read

ETHICS

Before You Talk or Write about Homosexuality…

A few friendly tips, if I may, for those Christian leaders, preachers, professors, pundits, activists, and anyone else who wants to...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

GENDER

C. S. Lewis and the Test of Coherence

In Miracles (the book that gets my vote as the best generally overlooked book by C. S. Lewis), Lewis makes a point about the plausibility...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

MEDIA

“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

3 min read

MISSION

The Cultural Gap Widens

When I was a kid growing up in Ontario, our church used to teach us ways in which we could signal to unbelievers that we were Christians...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

GENDER

Before You Oppose It…

Sen. Rob Portman is making news as the first Republican notable to come out for the legalization of homosexual marriage in the United...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

ETHICS

Feminists for the Unborn: Speak Up

On the 25th anniversary of R. v. Morgentaler, some feminists are understandably worried that the rights of certain women—childbearing...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

ETHICS

Lecture on Homosexuality Now Available

Since, as you know, I try to avoid controversy as much as possible and simply repeat bromides and other crowd-pleasers all I can, I’m...

John Stackhouse

1 min read

ETHICS

A Better Way on Prostitution

Julia Beazley, of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, writes on a recent report that analyzes Sweden’s ten-year-old campaign to reduce...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

ETHICS

American Day of Prayer? No. Freedom for Campus Christian Groups to Be Christian? Of Course.

Our American cousins are in the throes of a national hoo-hah over whether the National Day of Prayer, this year held on May 6, should...

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

2 min read

CHURCH

A Trial Begins

Monday morning, May 25, a trial begins that will make history in Canada with reverberations for the worldwide Anglican Communion. Four...

John Stackhouse

4 min read

CHURCH

Anglican Dissipation: The Break-Up of the World's Largest Small Group

In the wake of the decennial Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, the distinguished British magazine The Economist muses about why...

John Stackhouse

6 min read

ETHICS

The Reality of Sex

It was my privilege to give a public lecture at the University of British Columbia recently on the question, “Why Are Christians Against...

John Stackhouse

3 min read

CHURCH

Alternative Bishops among Anglicans? One's Already Here

I normally stay away from commenting on the convulsions of the Anglican Communion, whether here in the Diocese of New Westminster, whose...

John Stackhouse

2 min read

CIVILITY

Cartoons & Caricatures: Falwell on Tinky Winky and Dobson on SpongeBob

I was preparing this morning for my fourth interview on the life of Jerry Falwell when I thought I’d look into the strange case of his...

John Stackhouse

4 min read

EVANGELICALISM

A Lesson from Ted Haggard–and Henri Nouwen

By now we’ve all heard the latest about Ted Haggard, former pastor of New Life Community Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and former...

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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!