John Stackhouse
3 min read
Space: The Final Frontier
As Elon Musk indulges in the world’s highest-altitude product placement, putting both SpaceX and Tesla into solar orbit, theological...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
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...
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
6 min read
What “Orthodoxy” Is and Isn’t: Some Questions about Statements
When someone sits down to specify orthodoxy, he is up to something. Count on it.
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Another Scandal: Why Are We Still Surprised?
Dr. Arthur Porter is officially dead and charges against him have therefore been dropped. He is merely the latest hero to be toppled from...
John Stackhouse
7 min read
Treasure in Heaven: A Review of Gary Anderson’s “Charity”
In his fine study of Sin: A History (Yale, 2010), Notre Dame professor of theology Gary Anderson rendered an understanding of his subject...
John Stackhouse
1 min read
Yes, It’s Out
InterVarsity Press has advised me that my new book, Partners in Christ: A Conservative Case for Egalitarianism, has been released....
John Stackhouse
1 min read
The Great Transfusion
As we travel through Lent, we recall Luther’s speaking, in a letter to Georg Spenlein (1516), of Holy Week as the occasion of the Great...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Resurrection…to More of the Same?
Yesterday was the big celebration of the astonishing gift of “another life,” as they say in video games. How will you spend it?
John Stackhouse
27 min read
Stackhouse on Volf on “Public Faith”
Good friend Miroslav Volf published a fine book a couple of years ago on A Public Faith. The journal Political Theology has released a...
John Stackhouse
2 min read
Theory Ain’t Belief–Thank God!
Philosopher Alvin Plantinga buries a little gem of insight in a footnote to his massive Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Find Someone Good? Go Deeper–Notwithstanding…
In a world of voices—what seems often to be a maelstrom, even a cacophony, of competing signals—how wonderful it is to find someone...
John Stackhouse
3 min read
Simple Is Good; Oversimple Is Bad
I happen to chair the committee that coordinates the major lectureship at Regent College, the Laing Lectures. Roger Laing, our patron, is...
John Stackhouse
5 min read
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...
John Stackhouse
4 min read
Fans, Fanatics, and Faith
Chicago Bears football fans, among which I number myself, having cheered for them since our seven years’ sojourn in the Windy City in the...
John Stackhouse
2 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...