John Stackhouse
- 3 min
The Shadow Side of Minor Sports
It’s NHL playoff time. The Winnipeg Jets, for whom we cheered when we lived there in the 90’s, have gotten a new lease on life and are...
John Stackhouse
- 1 min
The 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 Stackhouse
- 3 min
Do 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 Stackhouse
- 3 min
Troy 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 Stackhouse
- 4 min
The Spiritual Glories of…Football
Early in September, one or another leggy, blonde singer strutted out onto my indefensibly large TV screen to inaugurate another season of...
John Stackhouse
- 3 min
The Rules and the Code: Reflections on Olympic Badminton–and Hypocrisy
As everyone knows now, four pairs of female badminton players, among the best in the world, were tossed out of the Olympic games for...