John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Some Fresh Thoughts on Psalm 23
Let’s begin with acknowledging the utter improbability that this post can live up to its title. Psalm 23 is one of the world’s favourite...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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What Does Prayer Do? Second Thoughts on Importunate Prayer
I recently wrote against the idea of piling up prayers to God as if we can exact what we want by dint of our exertions. God is not a...
Is that why Christians are in the world?
Did Jesus really die on a cross merely to inspire honorable, but otherwise unremarkable, lives?
A Theologian & Historian's Take on "Jesus Revolution"
Jesus Revolution is a good film. Not great, but not bad, either. Professor Stackhouse wonders, though, about the hole in the middle, where
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Pithy Theology
Professors tend to be long-winded. (I'll give you a moment to collect yourself after absorbing that shocking news.) I can't think of...
The Feast of the Holy Name
In the recent Marvel series “Loki,” a character refers to the master of the universe as “He Who Remains.” That is all: the one who...
Cur Deus Homo?
Mark 14:22-25 isn’t a typical Advent passage, but it provides a few clues about the coming of the Lord: “While they were eating, Jesus...
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...
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.
How Can I Block Out the Cruelty?
The stereotype of the schizophrenic is a poor soul beleaguered by a cacophony of voices telling him what to do. But we all now are...
Spiritual Gifts
Reading I Corinthians 12 this morning, under the tutelage of John Barclay’s excellent Paul and the Power of Grace, I’m reminded of my...
Faith as Yessing
Faith is often defined as a posture, an attitude, especially a posture or attitude of trust. I have gladly defined it that way myself....
A Bestselling Thriller Author Gets Good Friday Wrong
In his popular recent novel, The Order, thriller writer Daniel Silva decides in the name of Judaism to launch a missile at Christianity....
The Inescapable Weirdness of Easter
The world’s most popular religion, the world’s largest social movement, the world’s most believed Theory of Everything depends on...
Holy Week Prayers: What Do We Really Want?
Holy Week brings into focus a number of Big Questions. Among the most searching is this: What do we want? In particular, what do we want...
Is Hell Eternal?
People don’t suffer and die in hell because God chooses to torture and kill them.
Throw Away All Your Ravi Zacharias Books? Or All Your Luther?
A friend grieves the news of a report on Ravi Zacharias’s awful sins. And there are more on the public record now that don’t show up in...
Expectations for Christian Leadership
I’ve had reason recently to consider patterns of Christian leadership among evangelicals around the world. And among fast-growing...
Are Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel Lost?
One of the great obstacles to Christian faith in our time is the traditional teaching that all who have not heard and received the Gospel...
Don’t Ask Me to Pray
Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its...