John G. Stackhouse, Jr.5 minETHICSCivil Disobedience for ChristiansEven the movements under Gandhi and King provoked tremendous violence and highly ambiguous outcomes
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.8 minETHICSAs the Pandemic Continues…With the omicron variant stirring things up in new ways, we face the discouraging prospect of moving back into more restrictions as Year...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minPUBLIC LIFEIs Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” a Christmas Song?How about Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” instead? You might wonder if these are trick questions…. Cohen’s song was made famous by both the...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minCURRENT EVENTSA Mild Rant about North American EducationIt has been a very hard year for students everywhere, it seems, and in ways peculiar to each person. As I grade final papers, I am...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minCURRENT EVENTSExpectations for Christian LeadershipI’ve had reason recently to consider patterns of Christian leadership among evangelicals around the world. And among fast-growing...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.11 minETHICSThe Seven Deadly SignsMinistries that Think They Can Do No Financial Wrong Are Deceiving Themselves I published this article twenty years ago. I regret to say...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minCURRENT EVENTSOn “Dr. Jill Biden” & Medical Status AnxietyThe ignoramus who wrote in the WSJ about Jill Biden not being a real doctor (because she isn’t a physician, but holds a Doctor of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.5 minETHICSPostmodernity, Critical (Race) Theory, Cultural Marxism, and You: Part 3So what about those liberals—by which I mean, those socialists—by which I mean, those communists? Thus far in this little series (which...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minAPOLOGETICSFranklin Graham, John MacArthur, and Church-and-StateA 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 G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minCURRENT EVENTSSalacious StupidityI’d love to pile on Jerry Falwell, Jr. for engaging in, and then happily Instagramming, a yacht party (!) in which he, family members,...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.5 minAPOLOGETICS3 Geniuses on VacationGeorge Steiner, the literary critic, Wynton Marsalis, the celebrated trumpeter, and Doug Gilmour, the Hall-of-Fame hockey player, walk...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minETHICSFrom “Guilt,” “Racism,” “Privilege,” and “Fragility” to Justice, Responsibility, Realism, and HopeThe internet is telling me that as a white person I should feel guilty for all the bad things that have happened to BIPOC people in North...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 minLEADERSHIPShould the Statues Come Down?It’s easy to mock all the statue-removers as crazy mobs accomplishing nothing on behalf of the real victims of racism, past and present....
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minETHICSQuebec, Education, Parents, Religion: A Recipe for ConflictThe Coalition Avenir Québec continues its remarkable record of concentrating power in the provincial government on behalf of its pure...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minCURRENT EVENTSBest Year Ever? Yes! And also…NoNew York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has gotten a lot of attention recently for declaring that “This Has Been the Best Year Ever.”...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minCURRENT EVENTSEvangelicals in Canada versus Evangelicals in the USAI’m only going to say this one more time. Canadian evangelicals are not identical with our American cousins and not all aligned with the...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 minCURRENT EVENTSIt’s Time to Play “Political Catchphrase Bingo”!Ah, you who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minETHICS“I (Don’t) Like the Leader” Isn’t the Way to VoteSadly, of course, both political parties and the political press insist on characterizing modern elections in just this way. Leaders, not...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minETHICSIt’s Such a Big, Needy World: What Can I Do?This week we confront the appalling suffering of the Rohingya people at the hands of their fierce former neighbours in Myanmar/Burma....
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.5 minETHICSAnother Adolescent Decision in a Time of Grown-Up ChallengesThe Baby Boomers strike again. This week, the Ontario Court of Appeal—the highest-level court in the country to consider a case of...