John Stackhouse
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Fighting Our Phobias
While the U. S. President continues to wrestle with the American judiciary over whether people wanting to enter the United States can and...
John Stackhouse
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Did God Choose President Trump?
ICYMI on my blog for “Context with Lorna Dueck”: The inauguration of President Donald Trump was replete with prayers, scripture readings,...
John Stackhouse
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Milo, Maher, and Muck
I have never watched Bill Maher’s show in my life. I’ve seen clips of it, and of him guesting on other people’s shows, and there’s been...
John Stackhouse
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Tolerance for Diversity Breaks Out at McGill
[This column was originally posted on “Context with Lorna Dueck” six months ago. Alas, the issues remain live all over the continent.]...
John Stackhouse
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God Confirmed Missing in Canadian Public Discourse: The Assisted-Suicide Debate
As Canada has begun a new era of officially sanctioned, physician-assisted suicide, one is struck by the almost complete absence of a...
John Stackhouse
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Should Tax Money Go to Religious Groups?
[This is a lightly edited version of a post that first appeared on the “Context with Lorna Dueck” website.] One hears murmurs,...
John Stackhouse
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Two Straws in the Wind: Evangelicals and the US Election
Factoid 1: Franklin Graham all-but-explicitly endorsed Donald Trump on the eve of the election. Factoid 2: Wheaton College students,...
John Stackhouse
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Why Voting for a Third-Party Presidential Candidate Is Not a Valid Option
As we Canadians observe the American presidential election in various ratios of bemusement and horror, one position seems to stick out as...
John Stackhouse
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Bathrooms, Identity, Rights, and Wisdom: Helping All Students in the Light of Trans* Issues
[The following is a re-posting from my weblog “On Second Thought” published weekly at ContextwithLornaDueck.com] Two years ago, the...
John Stackhouse
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How to End “Working Poverty” in Canada
[The following is a re-posting from my weblog “On Second Thought” posted weekly on ContextwithLornaDueck.com] There should be no such...
John Stackhouse
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A Government Department of Euthanasia? Please, No
[This is another re-posting of a column earlier posted on the “Context with Lorna Dueck” website, for which I write weekly] ====== “I’m...
John Stackhouse
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The Conservative Party Moves On–and So Should Everyone Else
The Conservative Party of Canada just voted to remove the traditional definition of marriage (one man + one woman) from its platform and...
John Stackhouse
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“Love Your Enemies”: The 24-Karat Golden Rule for Politicians
[The following is an edited version of the address I delivered at the Prayer Breakfast of the Conservative Party of Canada in Vancouver...
John Stackhouse
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The New Refugees Scare Me Too
[This is another post lightly adapted from one originally written for my blog, “On Second Thought,” offered on the website for “Context...
John Stackhouse
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When Medication & Therapy Aren’t Enough
[This is another post from my weblog, “On Second Thought,” posted on the website of Lorna Dueck’s show, “Context.”] ============= Rwanda...
John Stackhouse
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Neither Severity nor Sentimentality: Responding Well to Terror
The following is another contribution to my weblog, called “On Second Thought,” originally published via Context with Lorna Dueck....
John Stackhouse
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Legalizing Marijuana: Facing the Realities of Altering Reality
[Here is another blog post from the weblog I’m now writing for “Context with Lorna Dueck.” The full bank of them is here.] As Parliament...
John Stackhouse
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Trump, American Evangelicals, and “the Establishment”
I know, I know: You’re sick of reading about Trump, thinking about Trump, waking up from nightmares about Trump…me, too. Still, a friend...
John Stackhouse
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Mr. Trump, Evangelicals, The Globe, and Crucial Distinctions
Canada’s newspaper of record, the Toronto Globe and Mail, expresses astonishment that Donald Trump, “a profane, thrice-married worshipper...
John Stackhouse
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“Conservative” Shouldn’t Mean Just “Grumpy and Complacent in Privilege”
This article, touted by a good friend of mine, but written by someone not known to me, is a prime example of why I stopped subscribing...