John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
The Cost of Free Speech on Campus
There is much to fear and loathe in the latest example of militant and violent campus intolerance. At Middlebury College in Vermont,...
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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
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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.]...
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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...
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Do Sports Matter to God?
With the National Football League season just underway, pennant races on in MLB, university and high school teams soon moving from...
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Theology and the University
The following is the penultimate draft of an essay recently published in the Canadian journal Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses....
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Installation Address at Crandall University
As we approach the start of a new academic year, I’ve returned to the Maritimes after a summer at home in North Vancouver to take up my...
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When Nothing (or “Anti-Everything”) Is Cool
Lisa Ruddick, an associate professor of English language and literature at the University of Chicago, has written a poignant, powerful...
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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...
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Pay for Part-Time Teaching
A friend writes: I’m a full time pastor, but teach a couple of courses at small Christian colleges/seminaries. How do I begin to think...
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Bad News for Religion Ph.D.’s…and Yet…
Here’s some bad news that no one finishing a Ph.D. in religious studies will find as all that surprising: the job market isn’t improving....
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Why I’m Not Cheering the “Loyola” Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme Court of Canada has now decided, albeit in an almost even split vote, the case of Loyola High School, a private Jesuit school...
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News We’d Like to See
Law Society Approves New Religious Law School by Irshad Chan-McCoy, Diversity Editor (TORONTO) (OF COURSE) To the surprise of many...
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Things Hoped For
I’ve been privileged to serve as a columnist for Faith Today magazine here in Canada for two stints, the second of which continues to the...
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“Warning: May Contain Peanuts”: Trigger Warnings, Pedagogy, and Common Sense
I wish there had been a “trigger warning” during my music history course in 1980. I was finishing my undergraduate degree at Queen’s...
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New and (Slightly) Improved! (Informercial 2014)
As was true last year at about this time, I’m receiving inquiries about what I’ll be discussing in my course on public speaking at Regent...
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What Can You Do?
I recently returned from speaking to a warm and appreciative group of teachers in Edmonton, Alberta. And I was moved by one teacher’s...
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Students and Writing Tutors
I was asked recently, as I often am, to recommend the services of a professional writing coach to any of my students wanting to improve...
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Evangelical Women and Pastoral Ministry
For (too) many evangelicals, this title contains a contradiction, if not an outright scandal: Evangelical women are not supposed to...
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Seeking Academic Letters of Reference
Students applying for PhD study, particularly in theological and religious studies, might find the following advice useful as they decide...
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Christian Scholars and the Public University: A Promising Conference
Our friends over at Cardus are working with other fine institutions to present what looks to be an extraordinary conference this autumn....