John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Should the Statues Come Down?
It’s easy to mock all the statue-removers as crazy mobs accomplishing nothing on behalf of the real victims of racism, past and present....
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JOHN G. STACKHOUSE, JR.
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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
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Beware the Politicians Crying, “Hijab! Hijab!”
This past week Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull proposed to lengthen the pathway to citizenship in his country while also...
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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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Wisdom from Bonhoeffer…for Everyone, Not Just Someone Else
I am conducting a seminar this semester on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s great work, Ethics. In preparing for a class next week, I came across a...
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Justice Means Justice for Everyone
The high-profile case of Wheaton College and Dr Larycia Hawkins continues to grind on. Full disclosure: I earned my MA there; I taught...
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Yes, It’s Out
InterVarsity Press has advised me that my new book, Partners in Christ: A Conservative Case for Egalitarianism, has been released....
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Better Late than Never…
When I arrived at Regent College in 1998, I looked forward to a lot of good things. One of them was to move on from the debates of the...
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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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Another Way Terrorists Win
Bernard Drainville, the Parti Québecois cabinet minister responsible for the controversial Values Charter now before the National...
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Not “Secular” in Quebec, but SecularIST
The Parti Québecois’s now-notorious “Values Charter” has received its proper share of ignominy, albeit rather belatedly. The thing was a...
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The Supreme Court Protects the Hateful “Hate Speech” Law
A rump of the Supreme Court of Canada (several justices did not participate in the ruling) voted unanimously to uphold parts of...
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Some Early Thoughts on the Pope’s Resignation
• As Cardinal Ratzinger, this pope had intimate knowledge of the declining years of John Paul II, even commenting at least once that that...
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Reason #25 Why You Should Come to Regent College Next Summer
There are lots of good reasons to make Regent College spring and summer programs part of your planning for 2013. Our website is full of...
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Of Course It Matters that Mitt Romney Is a Mormon
(Longtime readers of this weblog will know that I published a version of this post some years ago. But it seems, somehow, still...
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“Pussy Riot” and Churchly Hypocrisy
I’ve been tweeting occasionally in disgust over the way the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church has been responding to the “Pussy...
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One of These Things Is Not Supposed to Be Like the Others
Having spent considerable effort demonstrating that American evangelicals are not as bad as some people (including prominent American...
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"Conversion Narratives" about Gender
Dr. Alan Johnson of Wheaton College has recently produced a new collection of essays on gender. This one is quite new: It offers the...
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The Manhattan Declaration: A Waste of Everybody's Time?
Friends and students have asked what I think about The Manhattan Declaration. Not all friends or students have asked, to be sure! Indeed,...
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Our Own Worst (Media) Enemies
I’ve recently written here about how Christians, and pastors in particular, and evangelical pastors in particular particular, complain...
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Research, Teaching and Writing: Other Careers than the Professoriate
Some readers of my page on “Thinking about a Ph.D.” have asked me to expand on my brief mention of “other spheres” in which one can...