Beyond Sentimentality, Moralism, or Mysticism: A "Crucifiable" Jesus
I once encountered a Marxist debater who was slicing and dicing a mild-mannered Christian speaker in London’s Hyde Park. The Marxist was...

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Underestimating Theological Interest
I’m finishing up a week speaking at Mount Hermon Conference Center, in the hills above Santa Cruz, California. And I’ve been impressed...

John Stackhouse
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"Zeitgeist the Movie": The New "Chariots of the Gods"
One of the greatest thrills of my boyhood was happening to turn on the TV one day to find that a major corporation was about to present a...

John Stackhouse
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The Shack 4: Some Celebrations
Having defended the genre of The Shack, and having offered some theological demurrals, let’s conclude with some delight in the good...

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The Shack 3: Theological Concerns (Part 2)
Let’s pick up where we left off, so . . . Fourth, The Shack skims briefly over the surface of theology of religions, raising the question...

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The Shack 2: Some Theological Concerns (Part 1)
The Shack dives into the deep end of the religious pool, swimming around in the Biggest Questions: the divine nature, the Trinity, the...

John Stackhouse
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The Shack 1: In Defense of Ideological Fiction
Regent College recently sponsored an evening with the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Shack. William Paul Young talked about the...

John Stackhouse
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Another Occasion to Be Glad to Be Protestant, Alas
The non-story of the week in religion was the Vatican’s announcement that anyone involved in the ordination of a woman to the priesthood...

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Scot McKnight and His Gang on "Making the Best of It"
Überblogger Scot McKnight, Professor of New Testament at North Park in Chicago and an indefatigable and highly esteemed writer, editor,...

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When People Do Bad Things to Us . . .
A friend and former student wrote recently of having her heart broken by a man who had told her he loved her and wanted to make a life...

John Stackhouse
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Does the Trinity Prove Anything about Gender? Not Much
Amid all the arguments among Christians regarding the roles of men and women in home, church, and society, one of the most prominent...

John Stackhouse
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Entering Advent: Repentance and Forgiveness (I)
As Christians enter the season of Advent—the time of the church year when we undertake an examination of our lives and repent of our sins...

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Does 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...

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Jesus, I'm NOT in Love with You
One of the blights upon the hymnological landscape today is the continued presence of what we can fairly call the “love song to Jesus”...

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The "Win–Win–Win" Scenario of Christianity
A friend writes to ask whether God “needs” us in any way, or if he remains loftily remote from us, or something in between. Another...

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Terminology Time: What Is an "Inclusivist"?
A friend recently read my piece mentioned below, “A Bigger–and Smaller–View of Mission,” and asked this good question: “You say you are...

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There's No Such Thing as a Catholic Evangelical
Recently, Francis Beckwith, a respected philospher at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, announced his return to the Roman Catholic...

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What’s Good about (Bloody) Good Friday? Some Thoughts on the Atonement
A correspondent recently wrote: “I’m more baffled than ever about the Atonement. I sometimes feel like banging my head against the wall...

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Faith and Magic
A correspondent recently posed a series of good, tough questions about the nature of faith. One of them had to do with just how a...

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Shults & Stackhouse on Violence and God
I don’t know that I have met Dr. LeRon Shults, but he is a highly respected American theologian who recently took a job in Norway. He has...

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