John Stackhouse
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Finding the Will of God–or–Not Getting Lost in the Forest
Last December my family and I moved to North Vancouver, to a house surrounded by trees on the shoulder of Mount Seymour. Settlement ends...
John Stackhouse
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Don't "Expect a Miracle"
Amid the many lessons people are drawing from the financial crisis we’re all enduring, one lesson emerges as particularly poignant: Don’t...
John Stackhouse
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Obama's Gaffe–and Mine–and Yours…
It may not be obvious at first glance, but President Barack Obama is a lot like me. We both used to live in Hyde Park and attend the...
John Stackhouse
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Simple Is Good; Oversimple Is Bad
I happen to chair the committee that coordinates the major lectureship at Regent College, the Laing Lectures. Roger Laing, our patron, is...
John Stackhouse
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Surely You Can Work a Little Harder…
Some of us need to work harder than we do. Students fool themselves, thinking they are “studying” when they are just hanging out with...
John Stackhouse
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Why I Gave Up "Humility"
Humility is always fertile ground for jokes, isn’t it? A friend will mention an accomplishment, and before the rest of us can tease him,...
John Stackhouse
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Moving Decisions
My beloved and I have decided we ought to move away from our little house in the northeast corner of Vancouver across the Second Narrows...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Praying for Your Enemies
One of Jesus’ most unexpected and difficult commands comes to mind as both Canada and the United States are embroiled in elections, and...
John Stackhouse
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The Boomerangs of Sarcasm and Self-Righteousness
I’ve been struck in the exchanges some of us have been having about American politics (see the previous entry and comments) about the...
John Stackhouse
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A Few Provocative Lines
Here is a small bouquet of quotations to ponder when you’re taking a break from summer recreation: Samson sought the Holy Spirit so he...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
I've Gotta Be Me
Here are some people I admire: the apostle Paul, Thomas Aquinas, Francis Xavier, John Calvin, J. S. Bach, Jonathan Edwards, John and...
John Stackhouse
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Be Loved to Love
I’ve had occasion recently to reflect again upon the Apostle Paul’s great exposition of love in I Corinthians 13: Love is patient; love...
John Stackhouse
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When People Do Bad Things to Us . . .
A friend and former student wrote recently of having her heart broken by a man who had told her he loved her and wanted to make a life...
John Stackhouse
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You Are Your GPA
It’s getting towards the end of the academic term throughout North America, and it’s time to confirm a thought that haunt the corners of...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Everything Up in (Holy) Smoke
“I wonder what would happen,” reflects author Mark Alan Powell, “if we collected the offering on Sunday morning, set the plates on the...
John Stackhouse
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E-mail Silence: I'm Not Writing Back Because I Hate You
It’s summertime, and we’re all dealing with e-mail as best we can. Some of us answer it daily no matter what. Others let it pile up when...
John Stackhouse
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Evangelicals, Numbers, and Success
We evangelicals are a funny bunch when it comes to numbers. Some of us sectarian types–and I was raised among such, in a little church in...
John Stackhouse
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Faith and Magic
A correspondent recently posed a series of good, tough questions about the nature of faith. One of them had to do with just how a...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Getting Things Done: A Cult You Should Join
This is a blog about religion, spirituality, theology, and such like. Well, you need to hear about the cult I joined a few years ago and...