“And the Word Was Made Flesh…”
Today is the Feast of St. John the Evangelist. You will appreciate that I have some affinity with and affection for a Christian writer...
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What's wrong? How did we get here? What shall we do?
JOHN G. STACKHOUSE, JR.
Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Parables & Propositions
Scholars of religion well into middle age, as I am, remember the excitement of the so-called narrative school of theology breaking over...
Stackhouse on Wolterstorff on Kant
Here and here are two recent posts, for Christian Scholar’s Review, on my recent reading of an essay by Christian philosopher Nicholas...
When Theological Disputation Is Too Much…
Observation: If you hear the first nine, it doesn’t matter about the tenth.
The conversation is already over.
Only politics remains.
The Inescapable Weirdness of Easter
Here comes another Easter weekend. So what? Chocolate eggs, downy ducklings, and fluffy bunnies—nice enough, but hardly the haul we get...
Postmodernity, Critical (Race) Theory, Cultural Marxism, and You: Part 3
So what about those liberals—by which I mean, those socialists—by which I mean, those communists? Thus far in this little series (which...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Christianity and Other Religions: Clarifying Terms & Issues
I know: that’s a boring title. But an essay I wrote almost twenty years ago still seems at least occasionally useful to bring some clarity..
Are You Checking All the Ingredients?
I once enjoyed a fabulous vacation in France. It was our 25th wedding anniversary and we had saved carefully for three glorious weeks in...
Who Can You Believe?
It’s too good not to be true. It’s easy to feel that way when you come across a news article, Facebook post, speech, or seminar that...
I’m Sorry, Patton Oswalt, but We Have to Pick
I’ve seen Patton Oswalt in lots of movies and TV shows, and so have you: “The King of Queens,” “Magnolia,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,”...
What the Governor-General Got Right
I was a bit hard on Her Majesty’s representative last week as I encouraged her to stick to what she knows and what her office...
Some Matters Really Are Beneath (Christian) Contempt
The redoubtable Oliver O’Donovan offers us wise words for these times. They were posted and re-posted, you won’t be surprised to learn,...
Faith, Foolishness, and Fanaticism
Last week I chided the CBC’s Neil Macdonald for his outburst against people of faith whom he clearly would prefer to keep out of sight in...
Alvin Plantinga: The Atheists’ Unicorn
Alvin Plantinga, professor emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, recently received the Templeton Prize in Religion, which “honors a...
Anthropological Confusion, Epistemological Failure: Mainstream Media and Moderate, Orthodox Christia
A recent article on conservative trolls among the roiling White House press corps in The New Yorker can stand for a general ferment of...
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