John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Life on the Fifth of July
We Canadians and Americans have just emerged from the holiday weekend celebrating our respective countries’ nativities and histories....
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JOHN G. STACKHOUSE, JR.
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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
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Canada: Getting Worse—and Better
The name of our national holiday is, not to put too fine a point on it, very Canadian. The first day of July commemorates the July 1,...
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What Would It Take to Forgive Mel Gibson?
Mel Gibson is still among the most reviled people in Hollywood. We all know about his bitter, violent anti-Semitism. And there’s more in...
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Holy Week Posts 2016
I’m late publishing this kind of post this year, but in case you’d like some material for further reflection this Eastertide: On...
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What Will We Want Jesus to Want from Us?
Reading in Matthew 14 this morning, I was impressed afresh at the Apostle Peter’s audacity. I wonder if I, on the verge of 2016, will...
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Help for Busy Advent/Christmas Preachers
As I’ve done before, I list here some previous blog posts relevant to the season in case this can help you in your sermon preparation....
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Franklin Graham Converts to Islam
ASHEVILLE, NC (RNS) — In an announcement that has shocked the evangelical world, evangelist Franklin Graham, son of the world-famous...
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The Great Transfusion
As we travel through Lent, we recall Luther’s speaking, in a letter to Georg Spenlein (1516), of Holy Week as the occasion of the Great...
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Christmas Thoughts toward New Year’s Eve
Not only do I hope that the combination of Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve—two bacchanaliae designed to subvert and submerge any “Christmas...
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Advent/Christmas Posts
I’ve had the sort of year that has not lent itself to blogging. But as we approach Christmas, let me offer you a selection of...
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“But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming?”
If life has been disappointing, disillusioning, and worse—shocking, grievous, doomed—then what we crave is the predictable, the...
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Resurrection…to More of the Same?
So it’s the day after Easter Sunday. Let’s suppose that you had died and been raised from the dead. Yesterday was the big celebration of...
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Holy Week Posts
Over the last few years, I’ve posted several reflections pertinent to Holy Week. Some of you (especially those of you preparing sermons!)...
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Christmas in … well, May (2014)
Christmas has just come and gone again. You’re a smart person so I’ll ask you: How much did you learn about Christmas this year? It’s a...
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Everybody’s Welcome at Christmas
According to friend Gerry Bowler (that’s Prof. Gerald Q. Bowler, PhD [London] to you, bub) in his masterful Encyclopedia of...
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Honour Roll for Canada Day
Canadians have made it big elsewhere. Sometimes, in fact, talented Canadians don’t make it big here at home until they have made it big...
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Holy Week Posts
Over the last few years, I’ve posted several reflections pertinent to Holy Week. Some of you (especially those of you preparing sermons!)...
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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...
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What Christmas Is All About, Charlie Brown
The Van Pelt family has taught more people about the true meaning of Christmas than any preacher you can name, including probably the...