John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 minETHICSBody-Shaming? Or Education-Honouring?It’s back-to-school time and, for many Canadian pupils, it’s back to the demands of school dress codes. Not just in private schools, but...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minGENDERBathrooms, Identity, Rights, and Wisdom: Helping All Students in the Light of Trans* Issues[The following is a re-posting from my weblog “On Second Thought” published weekly at ContextwithLornaDueck.com] Two years ago, the...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minETHICSIt’s Time: Have a Debate and Sort This OutChristians all over the English-speaking world, as well as many beyond, are discussing the legitimacy of same-sex marriage and a whole...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minMISSIONOn Trusting God Rather than Freaking OutI’ve been enjoying teaching the basic concepts of my book Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World to students gathered...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.5 minETHICSBefore You Talk or Write about Homosexuality…A few friendly tips, if I may, for those Christian leaders, preachers, professors, pundits, activists, and anyone else who wants to...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minGENDERC. S. Lewis and the Test of CoherenceIn 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 G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 minMEDIA“God Loves Uganda,” but Its Director Doesn’t Love MeOh, boy, does he not. HERE is the Christianity Today version of the remarks I made at Vancouver’s DOXA film festival. HERE is Roger Ross...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minMISSIONThe Cultural Gap WidensWhen I was a kid growing up in Ontario, our church used to teach us ways in which we could signal to unbelievers that we were Christians...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minGENDERBefore 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 G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minETHICSFeminists for the Unborn: Speak UpOn the 25th anniversary of R. v. Morgentaler, some feminists are understandably worried that the rights of certain women—childbearing...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 minETHICSLecture on Homosexuality Now AvailableSince, as you know, I try to avoid controversy as much as possible and simply repeat bromides and other crowd-pleasers all I can, I’m...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 minETHICSA Better Way on ProstitutionJulia Beazley, of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, writes on a recent report that analyzes Sweden’s ten-year-old campaign to reduce...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minETHICSAmerican Day of Prayer? No. Freedom for Campus Christian Groups to Be Christian? Of Course.Our American cousins are in the throes of a national hoo-hah over whether the National Day of Prayer, this year held on May 6, should...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 minMULTICULTURALISMThe 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,...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minCHURCHA Trial BeginsMonday morning, May 25, a trial begins that will make history in Canada with reverberations for the worldwide Anglican Communion. Four...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 minCHURCHAnglican Dissipation: The Break-Up of the World's Largest Small GroupIn the wake of the decennial Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, the distinguished British magazine The Economist muses about why...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.6 minETHICSThe Reality of SexIt was my privilege to give a public lecture at the University of British Columbia recently on the question, “Why Are Christians Against...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minCHURCHAlternative Bishops among Anglicans? One's Already HereI normally stay away from commenting on the convulsions of the Anglican Communion, whether here in the Diocese of New Westminster, whose...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minCIVILITYCartoons & Caricatures: Falwell on Tinky Winky and Dobson on SpongeBobI was preparing this morning for my fourth interview on the life of Jerry Falwell when I thought I’d look into the strange case of his...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 minEVANGELICALISMA Lesson from Ted Haggard–and Henri NouwenBy now we’ve all heard the latest about Ted Haggard, former pastor of New Life Community Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and former...