John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 minHISTORYThe Paradoxes of Canada’s National Sport“He shoots! He scores!” It’s playoff time in the National Hockey League, and we Canadians alter our social lives accordingly....
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minCHURCHDo Sports Matter to God?With the National Football League season just underway, pennant races on in MLB, university and high school teams soon moving from...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minSPORTSTroy Polamalu: Feeling God’s Pleasure“The glory of God is a man fully alive.” — Irenaeus “When I run, I feel his pleasure.” — Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire Troy Polamalu...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 minSPORTSThe Spiritual Glories of…FootballEarly in September, one or another leggy, blonde singer strutted out onto my indefensibly large TV screen to inaugurate another season of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minETHICSThe Rules and the Code: Reflections on Olympic Badminton–and HypocrisyAs everyone knows now, four pairs of female badminton players, among the best in the world, were tossed out of the Olympic games for...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.5 minCIVILITYLaw and Order: Some Vancouverite ReflectionsBy now many of you have seen clips or photos of the criminal nonsense that afflicted the streets and businesses of downtown Vancouver...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 minMUSICHockey Night in Canada Theme Contest: A Shameless PlugCanadians know (and thanks to Stephen Colbert, so do many others) that the CBC surrendered its longtime musical theme for its premiere...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 minSPORTSDoes God Care about Entertainment?My eldest son, a fan of both films (he is a budding filmmaker) and sports (he is a nut about NFL football and NHL hockey), writes on his...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minSPORTSHumility and Humiliation: A Tale of Two QuarterbacksThose of us who care have seen Super Bowl XLI. Those of us who don’t, don’t want to read about it. So I’ll make this brief, and it’ll be...