John Stackhouse
- 1 min
Suffering Is Normal—Now…
Regent Audio is making available my recent chapel talk on suffering as a free download here. I hope some of you will find it worthwhile....
John Stackhouse
- 3 min
The Helpful Strangeness of Jesus
A friend recently confided in me that he was afraid of dying. A lifelong Christian, he has recently been plagued by doubts, and...
John Stackhouse
- 6 min
Why Christianity Is Believable: Part Four
Two data: That’s all I need. The two facts are (a) an empty tomb, and (b) enthusiastic disciples. Let’s see what might follow. After his...
John Stackhouse
- 2 min
Why Christianity Is Believable: A Reply to Dawkinsians and Their Ilk (Part One)
A couple of posts ago, I replied to Richard Dawkins’s charge that theologians don’t do anything useful. I replied in a couple of respects...
John Stackhouse
- 4 min
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
- 2 min
Don't "Expect a Miracle"
Amid the many lessons people are drawing from the financial crisis we’re all enduring, one lesson emerges as particularly poignant: Don’t...