John Stackhouse
4 min
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
6 min
The Meaning of Life? Why Should I Care?
Two emails this week, both from Australia, raise questions about doubt, belief, and the Big Questions. Indeed, their questions come at...
John Stackhouse
1 min
Re-Launching “Can I Believe?”
COVID-19 has affected matters great and small. Among the smaller matters has been the launch of my latest book, Can I Believe?...
John Stackhouse
7 min
Why “Mere Christianity” Should Have Bombed
Sixty years ago, London publisher Geoffrey Bles first released a revision of four sets of radio talks by an Oxford literature don. The...
John Stackhouse
3 min
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
4 min
Is Hell Eternal?
People don’t suffer and die in hell because God chooses to torture and kill them.
John Stackhouse
2 min
Churches and COVID-19
I’ve held fire on this subject until now. But a number of folk have asked me to comment, and the court cases are increasing across...
John Stackhouse
5 min
Are Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel Lost?
One of the great obstacles to Christian faith in our time is the traditional teaching that all who have not heard and received the Gospel...
John Stackhouse
3 min
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
2 min
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
5 min
3 Geniuses on Vacation
George Steiner, the literary critic, Wynton Marsalis, the celebrated trumpeter, and Doug Gilmour, the Hall-of-Fame hockey player, walk...
John Stackhouse
4 min
Cracks in the Darwinist Wall
Maverick computer scientist David Gelernter set off a grenade in the faculty dining room last spring. His essay, “Giving Up Darwin,”...
John Stackhouse
4 min