John Stackhouse
5 min read
Chris Tomlin's Worship Songs: We Have Got to Do Better
Since I have been complaining about loud music in church, I’ll stay in the groove and complain now about bad lyrics in church. And I have...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Memo to Worship Bands: Turn It Down, Please!
That’s the original title of the piece I’ve published in Christianity Today of late. When you’re done reading it, please comment...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Christians and the Public Good
Can Christian organizations insist that their employees believe Christian doctrines and practice Christian ethics? Not as often as they...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Church Membership and the Strange Case of Billy Graham
I’m a big fan of Billy Graham in lots of ways. I especially appreciate what seems to be a deep and determinative commitment to doing what...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Opportunity and Responsibility in the Financial Crisis
North American Christianity faces twin crises these days. The first is a leadership crisis, and the second is a funding crisis. There...
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
3 min read
Gilles Duceppe, Opus Dei, and the Ghost of Old Quebec
Gilles Duceppe, head of the Bloc Québecois (the separatist party in the Canadian province of Quebec), is fuming that Nicole Charbonneau...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Anglican Dissipation: The Break-Up of the World's Largest Small Group
In the wake of the decennial Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, the distinguished British magazine The Economist muses about why...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Underestimating Theological Interest
I’m finishing up a week speaking at Mount Hermon Conference Center, in the hills above Santa Cruz, California. And I’ve been impressed...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Disappearing (Musical) Languages?
Anthropologists and linguists have been decrying for years the disappearance of spoken languages around the world as globalization...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Campus Ministry: What Needs to Be Done
As an extension of the current thread about Ph.D.’s, vocations of teaching, and the like, I have posted a long-ish paper on “Engaging the...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Research, Teaching and Writing: Other Careers than the Professoriate
Some readers of my page on “Thinking about a Ph.D.” have asked me to expand on my brief mention of “other spheres” in which one can...
John Stackhouse
6 min read
"Zeitgeist the Movie": The New "Chariots of the Gods"
One of the greatest thrills of my boyhood was happening to turn on the TV one day to find that a major corporation was about to present a...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
The Shack 4: Some Celebrations
Having defended the genre of The Shack, and having offered some theological demurrals, let’s conclude with some delight in the good...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Another Occasion to Be Glad to Be Protestant, Alas
The non-story of the week in religion was the Vatican’s announcement that anyone involved in the ordination of a woman to the priesthood...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Does the Trinity Prove Anything about Gender? Not Much
Amid all the arguments among Christians regarding the roles of men and women in home, church, and society, one of the most prominent...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Empty Tomb or Empty Gesture?
One of Canada’s leading newspapers, the Toronto Globe and Mail, reported this past Easter weekend on a local church who decided not to...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Alternative Bishops among Anglicans? One's Already Here
I normally stay away from commenting on the convulsions of the Anglican Communion, whether here in the Diocese of New Westminster, whose...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Evangelical Elites Avoiding Church?
Much has been written about Michael Lindsay’s recently published study on evangelical elites in America, summarized here in a USA Today...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Church Bulletin Classics
You’ve likely seen lists such as this one before. But this is a pretty good one, and I’ve been awfully serious of late, so let’s lighten...