Resilience: A Fruit of the Spirit
I have been encountering some extraordinarily bad weather of late, unusual in both its severity and longevity. Perhaps things are...
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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Pentecost: Third-Best Day!
Easter and Christmas are the two top holidays in the Christian year, of course, commemorating as they do the resurrection of Jesus (the...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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What’s It Worth to You?
A friend of mine, Ralph Winter, has produced a wide range of movies, and many of them share a common trait: a character with super...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Practice Makes Perfect
Life here, now, is about life here, now, and also about the life here, then. We Christians live in the hope of the Second Coming of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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"Be But Your Own True Friend"
William Law (1686–1761) is not one of my favourite spiritual writers, although he did have his fans (such as the Wesleys, George...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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O Come, Let Us Adore Him–If We Can Stand It
I love the sights of Christmas. My beloved spends considerable time and skill “Christmasing” our home and there is something beautiful to...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Eckhart Tolle: Does the Mask of "Stresslessness" Hide a Deep, Bitter Anger?
In a new article in Canada’s national newsmagazine, Maclean’s, Ken McQueen tries to walk the journalistic tightrope between appreciation...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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"Holy Post" in the National Post
I’ll interrupt this sequence on Christian universities to gesture toward a new initiative of one of Canada’s national newspapers, the...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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"Zeitgeist the Movie": The New "Chariots of the Gods"
One of the greatest thrills of my boyhood was happening to turn on the TV one day to find that a major corporation was about to present a...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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The Shack 4: Some Celebrations
Having defended the genre of The Shack, and having offered some theological demurrals, let’s conclude with some delight in the good...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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The Shack 3: Theological Concerns (Part 2)
Let’s pick up where we left off, so . . . Fourth, The Shack skims briefly over the surface of theology of religions, raising the question...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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The Shack 2: Some Theological Concerns (Part 1)
The Shack dives into the deep end of the religious pool, swimming around in the Biggest Questions: the divine nature, the Trinity, the...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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The Shack 1: In Defense of Ideological Fiction
Regent College recently sponsored an evening with the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Shack. William Paul Young talked about the...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Be Loved to Love
I’ve had occasion recently to reflect again upon the Apostle Paul’s great exposition of love in I Corinthians 13: Love is patient; love...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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The Privilege of Prayer
The great science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, whose most famous work is 2001: A Space Odyssey Isaac Asimov, whose manifold works...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Evangelicals, Numbers, and Success
We evangelicals are a funny bunch when it comes to numbers. Some of us sectarian types–and I was raised among such, in a little church in...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Oprah’s Secret: New? Old? Good? Bad?
Oprah Winfrey’s latest spiritual sensation is The Secret. Her talk show has featured it prominently, her website presents a lot of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Spirituality: Informal, implicit, invisible…
Does this sound like you, or someone you know? A friend recently wrote in answer to a question about her interest in spiritual things: “I...
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