

Dangerous Dreaming
Religion doesn’t matter. At least, it doesn’t seem to matter much in Canada. Canada’s cultural magazine, The Walrus, devoted its June...

John Stackhouse
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Paige Patterson, Donald Trump, and Theological Malpractice
As Christian leaders have defended Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson over this past couple of months and President Donald Trump...

John Stackhouse
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Let’s First Get a Few Things Straight
Alas, Christians are denounced still today by people who are confident they know what Christians believe and practice, but who clearly don’t

John Stackhouse
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Was Billy Graham “the Last Nonpartisan Evangelical”?
(RNS) — In the wake of Billy Graham’s death, several major media outlets ran columns suggesting that the evangelist was the “last...

John Stackhouse
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When You Invite a Visiting Speaker…
Since most people who invite speakers (and the same goes for musicians, I daresay) are not themselves professional speakers, and...

John Stackhouse
4 min read


Zombies, Fear, and Hope
We have finally reached “peak zombie.” Popular culture’s fascination with the cannibalistic undead has turned a corner and maybe, as show...

John Stackhouse
3 min read


Successful—or Merely Popular?
The new season of “Black Mirror,” a “Twilight Zone” TV program now produced by Netflix, opens with an episode nicely terrifying for our...

John Stackhouse
2 min read


Why Isn’t Christianity Simpler?
When I moved to Vancouver in 1998, once people found out I had been a guest of various radio hosts in Winnipeg and elsewhere, the...

John Stackhouse
2 min read
The Purveyor of Pleasure Brought Nothing but Pain
The Washington Post’s Theresa Vargas reminds us of the murder of Playmate Dorothy Stratten as “the dark side of Playboy.” And it is a...

John Stackhouse
2 min read
Keeping Relationships in an “Unfriending” World
Perhaps you can help me with this. I’m trying to decide whether to find a new mechanic for my car. The problem with my current mechanic...

John Stackhouse
2 min read


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...

John Stackhouse
1 min read
Taking a Break from Trump
Yes, yes, I know. It’s horrible, but one can’t look away. The slow-motion car wreck that, for many of us, is the U.S. presidency...

John Stackhouse
2 min read
Mike Pence and the Liberal Moral Police
American Vice-President Mike Pence set commentators across the cultural spectrum all a-twitter this past week as it emerged that he had...

John Stackhouse
1 min read
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...

John Stackhouse
1 min read
GEEZ, am I a "liberal evangelical"?
GEEZ magazine has recently offered what they call a typology of contemporary evangelicalism. We pedants would prefer the term...

John Stackhouse
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