

John Stackhouse
6 min read
Plain Speaking without Dumbing Down
I remember a brilliant former student of mine distinguishing herself in a master's-level seminar with a charming, vigorous, and...

John Stackhouse
6 min read
Why Boards Need to Stay Awake
Three more American institutions of Christian higher education are in big trouble. The focus, understandably, is on their presidents...


John Stackhouse
19 min read
Engaging the University
I delivered this address more than a decade ago to a conference in Toronto of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, the...

John Stackhouse
3 min read
Who Can You Believe?
It’s too good not to be true. It’s easy to feel that way when you come across a news article, Facebook post, speech, or seminar that...

John Stackhouse
4 min read
Different Schools for Different Folks—or Not? Reflections on Trinity Western’s Law School
No political issue in Canadian history has been more important, contentious, and complex than schooling, and particularly the question of...

John Stackhouse
4 min read
Deciding on College? Why It’s Harder to Do than Ever
It’s that time of year again. Students are receiving acceptance/denial letters, making last-minute visits to campuses, weighing up...

John Stackhouse
4 min read
What to Do about SOGI in School
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) laws are being passed in various countries and jurisdictions, and entire school curricula...

John Stackhouse
3 min read
And Having Said That about Seminaries…
I promised to represent people who responded to a previous post about seminary education, and I’m glad to do so. As one might have...

John Stackhouse
4 min read
Seminary Self-Importance and the Fiction of the “Master” of Divinity
Teaching as I am, once again, at the undergraduate level, and encouraging bright students to go on to graduate work, I have encountered...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
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,...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
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
3 min read
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...
John Stackhouse
36 min read
Theology and the University
The following is the penultimate draft of an essay recently published in the Canadian journal Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses....
John Stackhouse
6 min read
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...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
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...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
“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...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
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...

John Stackhouse
2 min read
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....
John Stackhouse
4 min read
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...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
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...