John Stackhouse
3 min read
Some Tenebrae Musings
As the time for Tenebrae (Latin “darkness”) services has come again, one thinks of the shrinking circle of light in the Passion narrative...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Why Voting for a Third-Party Presidential Candidate Is Not a Valid Option
As we Canadians observe the American presidential election in various ratios of bemusement and horror, one position seems to stick out as...
John Stackhouse
6 min read
Installation Address at Crandall University
As we approach the start of a new academic year, I’ve returned to the Maritimes after a summer at home in North Vancouver to take up my...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Life on the Fifth of July
We Canadians and Americans have just emerged from the holiday weekend celebrating our respective countries’ nativities and histories....
John Stackhouse
2 min read
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
3 min read
Pay for Part-Time Teaching
A friend writes: I’m a full time pastor, but teach a couple of courses at small Christian colleges/seminaries. How do I begin to think...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Top 10 Reasons Pastors Should Avoid Politics
National Public Radio, among many other sources, features news of hundreds of American pastors attending workshops to learn how better to...
John Stackhouse
6 min read
My Dinner with Mako
Just back from New York City. Had never visited it, having visited so many, many US cities over the years. San Diego, Los Angeles, San...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Right in the Wrong(est) Places
The Epistle to the Philippians begins with Paul identifying himself as a “slave of Messiah Jesus.” And, at the time, he might have felt...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Christmas Thoughts toward New Year’s Eve
Not only do I hope that the combination of Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve—two bacchanaliae designed to subvert and submerge any “Christmas...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Resurrection…to More of the Same?
Yesterday was the big celebration of the astonishing gift of “another life,” as they say in video games. How will you spend it?
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Christian Scholars and the Public University: A Promising Conference
Our friends over at Cardus are working with other fine institutions to present what looks to be an extraordinary conference this autumn....
John Stackhouse
3 min read
In (Abashed) Praise of Diligence
Here are a few Proverbs, taken from a half-dozen similar ones: 12:27 The lazy do not roast their game, but the diligent obtain precious...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Downward Mobility
I thank God I don’t have to thank “God-in-general,” or some alternative deity. Yes, the God of the Bible is called “God” because, in the...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Some Post-Election Hopeful Realism
In my book, Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World, I devote a chapter to the theology of culture of C. S. Lewis. In...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Happy New Year!
It’s September 1 and the beginning of the real new year. December 31/January 1 is a good mid-year pause to party and/or ponder. But...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Hoping to Get Noticed
I don’t get enough attention. You might think I do, but I don’t. Do you? I’ll bet you don’t, either. Some people get more attention than...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
"Getting Ready for Glory"–Academic Style
A few posts ago, I enjoyed writing to you about Steve Bell’s grandmother as described in a story by Steve and a song by Carolyn Arends,...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Practice Makes Perfect
Life here, now, is about life here, now, and also about the life here, then. We Christians live in the hope of the Second Coming of...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
"Ring by Spring"? Giving Women Alternative Futures
Here in Upland, Indiana, I’ve been told by reliable people at Taylor University that many, many of their young women come to college with...