Body-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...
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JOHN G. STACKHOUSE, JR.
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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Bathrooms, 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...
It’s Time: Have a Debate and Sort This Out
Christians all over the English-speaking world, as well as many beyond, are discussing the legitimacy of same-sex marriage and a whole...
On Trusting God Rather than Freaking Out
I’ve been enjoying teaching the basic concepts of my book Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World to students gathered...
Before 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...
C. S. Lewis and the Test of Coherence
In Miracles (the book that gets my vote as the best generally overlooked book by C. S. Lewis), Lewis makes a point about the plausibility...
“God Loves Uganda,” but Its Director Doesn’t Love Me
Oh, 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...
The Cultural Gap Widens
When 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...
Before 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...
Feminists for the Unborn: Speak Up
On the 25th anniversary of R. v. Morgentaler, some feminists are understandably worried that the rights of certain women—childbearing...
Lecture on Homosexuality Now Available
Since, 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...
A Better Way on Prostitution
Julia Beazley, of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, writes on a recent report that analyzes Sweden’s ten-year-old campaign to reduce...
American 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...
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,...
A Trial Begins
Monday morning, May 25, a trial begins that will make history in Canada with reverberations for the worldwide Anglican Communion. Four...
Anglican Dissipation: The Break-Up of the World's Largest Small Group
In the wake of the decennial Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, the distinguished British magazine The Economist muses about why...
The Reality of Sex
It was my privilege to give a public lecture at the University of British Columbia recently on the question, “Why Are Christians Against...
Alternative Bishops among Anglicans? One's Already Here
I normally stay away from commenting on the convulsions of the Anglican Communion, whether here in the Diocese of New Westminster, whose...
Cartoons & Caricatures: Falwell on Tinky Winky and Dobson on SpongeBob
I 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...
A Lesson from Ted Haggard–and Henri Nouwen
By now we’ve all heard the latest about Ted Haggard, former pastor of New Life Community Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and former...