John Stackhouse
4 min
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....
John Stackhouse
3 min
Does Your Board Know Its Business?
As the controversy continues surrounding Willow Creek Community Church’s pastor Bill Hybels, its Board of Elders has offered a public...
John Stackhouse
1 min
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...
John Stackhouse
1 min
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
4 min
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...
John Stackhouse
3 min
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...
John Stackhouse
3 min
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...
John Stackhouse
3 min
Another Way Terrorists Win
Bernard Drainville, the Parti Québecois cabinet minister responsible for the controversial Values Charter now before the National...
John Stackhouse
2 min
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...
John Stackhouse
5 min
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...
John Stackhouse
2 min
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...
John Stackhouse
2 min
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...
John Stackhouse
3 min
Find Someone Good? Go Deeper–Notwithstanding…
In a world of voices—what seems often to be a maelstrom, even a cacophony, of competing signals—how wonderful it is to find someone...
John Stackhouse
3 min
“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...
John Stackhouse
2 min
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...
John Stackhouse
14 min
"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...
John Stackhouse
4 min