John Stackhouse
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Is America/Canada/Britain/[Your country here] Going to Hell?
There is a lot of hay to be made–and book royalties, and speaking fees–with the message that one’s country is flying fast toward...
John Stackhouse
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Medicine and Religion: Yes and No
Richard P. Sloan is worried about the connection of medicine and religion, as well he should be. He is Professor of Behavioral Medical...
John Stackhouse
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Overstepping? Evangelical Leaders and a Palestinian State
A number of American evangelical leaders, among whom I count several friends, recently wrote an open letter to President Bush urging a...
John Stackhouse
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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...
John Stackhouse
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Christianity and the Politics of Weakness
Over the last few years, American evangelicals have been making news by saying that they’re not all on the political right. Some are on...
John Stackhouse
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Jerry Falwell, Father of the Religious Right
The Reverend Jerry Falwell has gone to his reward. He departs this life with a significant résumé in public life. And if it weren’t for...
John Stackhouse
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Of Course It Matters that Mitt Romney Is a Mormon
(Longtime readers of this weblog will know that I published a version of this post some years ago. But it seems, somehow, newly...
John Stackhouse
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Coercion? Or Church Discipline? Jehovah's Witnesses, Blood Transfusions, and the Sovereign Indi
The British Columbia Supreme Court has been deliberating over whether the parents of sextuplets can refuse blood transfusions for their...
John Stackhouse
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William Wilberforce as Evangelical Leftist?
Folks on the Religious Right continue to sputter in outrage as evangelicals get involved in HIV/AIDS work in Africa (and at home), as...
John Stackhouse
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My Favourite Muslim: Irshad Manji
If you don’t know about Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam Today, then you probably should. Her website is here. Irshad is a...
John Stackhouse
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Liberal Fascists (Still) on Campus?
When I was a student at Queen’s University in the late 1970s, I attended precisely one meeting of the student government there–the Alma...
John Stackhouse
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Taking Christ Out of "Kris-mass"
This time of year, preachers are constantly telling us to “put Christ back into Christmas.” Well, maybe. My beloved and I watched the...
John Stackhouse
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Politicians and religious identity
A reporter talked with me today about a poll he tried to take of Canadian Members of Parliament, on behalf of the major print medium for...