Trends | Dr. John Stackhouse

As the Pandemic Continues…

With the omicron variant stirring things up in new ways, we face the discouraging prospect of moving back into more restrictions as Year...

A Mild Rant about North American Education

It has been a very hard year for students everywhere, it seems, and in ways peculiar to each person. As I grade final papers, I am...

Keeping Up with the Windsors

One cannot avoid encountering the soon-to-be-no-longer-HRH Prince Harry, his wife Meghan, and their little boy Archie. They’re...

“The Future Is Already Here…”

So says William Gibson, the American author who followed his wife to her native Vancouver and from there has spun out his tales of the...

Best Year Ever? Yes! And also…No

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has gotten a lot of attention recently for declaring that “This Has Been the Best Year Ever.”...

How are we doing?

“Not too bad.” That’s the common reply on the prairies to a friendly “How are you?” It’s also common out here in my new home in the...

Are Christians in Exile? Not Yet

The end of the school year nears. The disastrous decision by the Prime Minister to attach the Canada Summer Jobs program to his personal...

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...

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