John Stackhouse
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How to Decide about the Big Questions
My last post answered questions from Down Under about why we should trouble ourselves to try to answer life’s most troubling questions:...
John Stackhouse
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Is that why Christians are in the world?
Did Jesus really die on a cross merely to inspire honorable, but otherwise unremarkable, lives?
John Stackhouse
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Gender & Realized or Over-Realized Eschatology
What would our understanding of gender look like, however, if we took the “already, but not yet” principle seriously?
John Stackhouse
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A Theologian & Historian's Take on "Jesus Revolution"
Jesus Revolution is a good film. Not great, but not bad, either. Professor Stackhouse wonders, though, about the hole in the middle, where
John Stackhouse
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And…He’s Out: A Riposte to Daniel Silliman’s Attempted Assault on Bebbington’s Quadrilateral
Daniel Silliman, news editor at Christianity Today magazine, recently took on some big leaguers without, alas, making much contact....
John Stackhouse
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Civil Disobedience for Christians
Even the movements under Gandhi and King provoked tremendous violence and highly ambiguous outcomes
John Stackhouse
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“And the Word Was Made Flesh…”
Today is the Feast of St. John the Evangelist. You will appreciate that I have some affinity with and affection for a Christian writer...
John Stackhouse
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Cur Deus Homo?
Mark 14:22-25 isn’t a typical Advent passage, but it provides a few clues about the coming of the Lord: “While they were eating, Jesus...
John Stackhouse
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When Theological Disputation Is Too Much…
Observation: If you hear the first nine, it doesn’t matter about the tenth.
The conversation is already over.
Only politics remains.
John Stackhouse
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A Bestselling Thriller Author Gets Good Friday Wrong
In his popular recent novel, The Order, thriller writer Daniel Silva decides in the name of Judaism to launch a missile at Christianity....
John Stackhouse
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Expectations for Christian Leadership
I’ve had reason recently to consider patterns of Christian leadership among evangelicals around the world. And among fast-growing...
John Stackhouse
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Franklin Graham, John MacArthur, and Church-and-State
A few friends have seen this post on Facebook and asked me to re-post it here to make it easier for them to share. Franklin Graham...
John Stackhouse
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In the Light of the Sri Lankan Suffering
[This was originally posted in April 2019] What’s the real story of the Sri Lankan bombings? Is it that Christians are being persecuted...
John Stackhouse
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Christianity Is Weird, but Perhaps Not as Weird as Your Think
Christianity has what I sometimes call a “double weirdness problem.” Elements of its teaching that are truly strange—such as the...
John Stackhouse
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Gretta Vosper and the United Church of Canada: What’s Going on?
Self-declared atheist Gretta Vosper held on to her pulpit in the United Church of Canada last week as denominational executives decided...
John Stackhouse
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News Flash: Dog Doesn’t Bite Man
Exactly zero news agencies would bother reporting that a local man encountered a dog who didn’t bite him, as he had feared it would, but...
John Stackhouse
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When You Invite a Visiting Speaker…
Since most people who invite speakers (and the same goes for musicians, I daresay) are not themselves professional speakers, and...
John Stackhouse
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What “Orthodoxy” Is and Isn’t: Some Questions about Statements
When someone sits down to specify orthodoxy, he is up to something. Count on it.
John Stackhouse
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A Dash of Cold Water for Christian Anarchism
[NOTE: This originally appeared in Geez (Winter 2012): 38-39. I sent a copy to a friend recently, and it made me think others might like...
John Stackhouse
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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...