John Stackhouse
- 4 min
Entering Advent: Repentance and Forgiveness (I)
As Christians enter the season of Advent—the time of the church year when we undertake an examination of our lives and repent of our sins...
John Stackhouse
- 3 min
"Red-Letter Christians": A Bad Idea with a Bad Name, Alas
Being a “red-letter Christian” sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? Tony Campolo, professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University,...
John Stackhouse
- 2 min
Jesus, I'm NOT in Love with You
One of the blights upon the hymnological landscape today is the continued presence of what we can fairly call the “love song to Jesus”...
John Stackhouse
- 2 min
A Bad Appeal for a Good Cause
Churches sometimes succumb to the temptation to appeal to our less-worthy motives in order to get us to do what we ought. In our age of...
John Stackhouse
- 3 min
When Is a Not-Church a Church? When It's an "Ecclesial Community"
Pope Benedict XVI continues to make things as clear as he can for his own church and for everyone else. So now we have another document...
John Stackhouse
- 3 min
Leadership Structures as If We Believed What We Preach
Christianity Today magazine recently published a troubling article about a group of churches in the United States associated with Calvary...