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...
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What's wrong? How did we get here? What shall we do?
JOHN G. STACKHOUSE, JR.
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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Let’s First Get a Few Things Straight
Understandably, the early Christian church was persecuted by the ancient Romans for practicing incest and cannibalism. At least, that’s...
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...
In Search of Truth and Reconciliation
UPDATE: In the light of the current discovery of a mass grave at the Kamloops Residential School in British Columbia (May 2021), I have...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Getting the Facts Straight about Religion
The CBC’s Neil Macdonald embarrassed himself this past week by letting loose on all things religious under the guise of a warning about...
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...
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...
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...
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...