Epistemology

Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
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Holy Week Prayers: What Do We Really Want?

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Holy Week Prayers: What Do We Really Want?

Holy Week brings into focus a number of Big Questions. Among the most searching is this: What do we want? In particular, what do we want...

John Stackhouse

2 min

EPISTEMOLOGY

Jimmy (and Billy) Kimmel and the Power of One

Television audiences throughout North America and beyond have been riveted by the recent opening to talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel’s...

John Stackhouse

2 min

MEDIA

Evangelicals, Elites, and Alternative Facts

Molly Worthen, a reputable scholar of American evangelicalism who teaches at the estimable University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill,...

John Stackhouse

3 min

EPISTEMOLOGY

Beware the Power of “Story”

“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.” Well, let’s see. Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and...

John Stackhouse

4 min

MULTICULTURALISM

On Forbearance and Listening

My wife once brought me up short, years ago, by suggesting that a man telling women to calm down when they wanted to express their pain...

John Stackhouse

3 min

EPISTEMOLOGY

Well, Maybe, Sister Anne…

Concerned friends have asked me about Anne Graham Lotz’s recent call to prayer that will culminate tomorrow (July 7) in a 7-hour time of...

John Stackhouse

1 min

EPISTEMOLOGY

The Giveaway’s Gone…but the Launch Looms

Thanks to the good people at Goodreads and Oxford University Press, 10 of the 450+ people who signed up for the Goodreads Giveaway of...

John Stackhouse

2 min

PIETY

Merton Channels Screwtape

Here’s a challenging passage from Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation that will bring many of us up short: The devil is not afraid...

John Stackhouse

3 min

GENDER

C. S. Lewis and the Test of Coherence

In Miracles (the book that gets my vote as the best generally overlooked book by C. S. Lewis), Lewis makes a point about the plausibility...

John Stackhouse

3 min

GENDER

Before You Oppose It…

Sen. Rob Portman is making news as the first Republican notable to come out for the legalization of homosexual marriage in the United...

John Stackhouse

1 min

EPISTEMOLOGY

Basilea Schlink: Searching for Clues…

A previous generation of Christian readers was more familiar with the name of Basilea Schlink (1904-2001), a German mystic who wrote...

John Stackhouse

2 min

DEFINING THE TERMS

Theory Ain’t Belief–Thank God!

Philosopher Alvin Plantinga buries a little gem of insight in a footnote to his massive Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that...

John Stackhouse

4 min

APOLOGETICS

Arguments from Design Don’t Prove; They Show

One can hardly get through an issue of a popular science magazine these days without having one or another of two gospels preached at...

John Stackhouse

2 min

EPISTEMOLOGY

Analytic Thinking Promotes Qualified Belief, not Disbelief

Some colleagues in psychology at UBC recently published a study that suggests that analytic thinking tends to promote religious...

John Stackhouse

3 min

CHURCH

Who You Gonna Call?

The following is my latest contribution to the “Ask John” feature of Wondering Fair, a blog led by Regent College graduates around the...

John Stackhouse

2 min

BIBLE

I Tim. 2:15ff., Gender, and "Just Obeying What Scripture Clearly Says"

In my book Finally Feminist I refer to I Timothy 2:15ff as the passage that finally clued me in to an important truth about Biblical...

John Stackhouse

4 min

PIETY

Finding the Will of God–or–Not Getting Lost in the Forest

Last December my family and I moved to North Vancouver, to a house surrounded by trees on the shoulder of Mount Seymour. Settlement ends...

John Stackhouse

1 min

SCIENCE

"Expelled" and Intelligent Design: Thanks for the Help!

We weren’t able to go to “Expelled”‘s preview last night, but if I do get to see it soon (we usually watch movies at home, since some...

John Stackhouse

1 min

SCIENCE

"Expelled" and Intelligent Design: Help, Please

I’ve been given comp tix to see “Expelled” in a couple of days, just before it opens here in Canada. How can I not? Several of the Big...

John Stackhouse

6 min

APOLOGETICS

I'm Certain that There Are Two Kinds of Certainty

There is a lot of huffing and puffing nowadays about “postmodernism” and “skepticism” and “certainty” and “absolute truth.” And it’s been...

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Thoughts on CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE John G. Stackhouse, Jr.'s blog has moved to www.thinkbettermedia.ca/blog as of August 2023 visit there for the latest posts and news!

Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.'s blog has moved to www.thinkbettermedia.ca/blog as of August 2023 visit there for the latest posts and news!