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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On the Feast of Stephen
Today is the Feast of St. Stephen, one of the two sad days during the Twelve Days of Christmas. Unlike the other sad day, the Feast of...
John Stackhouse
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How Can I Block Out the Cruelty?
The stereotype of the schizophrenic is a poor soul beleaguered by a cacophony of voices telling him what to do. But we all now are...
John Stackhouse
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Faith as Yessing
Faith is often defined as a posture, an attitude, especially a posture or attitude of trust. I have gladly defined it that way myself....
John Stackhouse
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The Inescapable Weirdness of Easter
The world’s most popular religion, the world’s largest social movement, the world’s most believed Theory of Everything depends on...
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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Don’t Ask Me to Pray
Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its...
John Stackhouse
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Will Science Save Us? From What?
[This was originally posted in March 2019] The late neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—he wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife...
John Stackhouse
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Digging Out
There are two tragedies in life, to paraphrase the famous line from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. One is to fail to gain your...
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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Faith, Foolishness, and Fanaticism
Last week I chided the CBC’s Neil Macdonald for his outburst against people of faith whom he clearly would prefer to keep out of sight in...
John Stackhouse
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Theory Ain’t Belief–Thank God!
Philosopher Alvin Plantinga buries a little gem of insight in a footnote to his massive Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that...
John Stackhouse
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Fans, Fanatics, and Faith
Chicago Bears football fans, among which I number myself, having cheered for them since our seven years’ sojourn in the Windy City in the...