Each Day, Minus One
Thomas Traherne was a seventeenth-century Anglican cleric not well known in his own time and then ignored for two hundred years. In the...
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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Stop Reading That!
“So, have you read all these books?” The HVAC repairman looked up from the heat pump he was servicing in my home. Around him were the...
The Cost of Free Speech on Campus
There is much to fear and loathe in the latest example of militant and violent campus intolerance. At Middlebury College in Vermont,...
Knowing or Trusting? Which Would You Prefer?
In the recent Academy Award-winning movie Arrival, one character asks another a compelling question: If you could see your whole life...
Milo, Maher, and Muck
I have never watched Bill Maher’s show in my life. I’ve seen clips of it, and of him guesting on other people’s shows, and there’s been...
Tolerance for Diversity Breaks Out at McGill
[This column was originally posted on “Context with Lorna Dueck” six months ago. Alas, the issues remain live all over the continent.]...
Why Voting for a Third-Party Presidential Candidate Is Not a Valid Option
As we Canadians observe the American presidential election in various ratios of bemusement and horror, one position seems to stick out as...
The Dangers of Forgiveness
[This is another reposting from the blog I have over at “Context with Lorna Dueck“] Forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts we can give...
A Government Department of Euthanasia? Please, No
[This is another re-posting of a column earlier posted on the “Context with Lorna Dueck” website, for which I write weekly] ====== “I’m...
Life on the Fifth of July
We Canadians and Americans have just emerged from the holiday weekend celebrating our respective countries’ nativities and histories....
“Love Your Enemies”: The 24-Karat Golden Rule for Politicians
[The following is an edited version of the address I delivered at the Prayer Breakfast of the Conservative Party of Canada in Vancouver...
The #1 Sign of a Doomed Relationship
[This is another of my posts in my “On Second Thought” blog for “Context with Lorna Dueck”] On Valentine’s Day we celebrate romantic...
When Nothing (or “Anti-Everything”) Is Cool
Lisa Ruddick, an associate professor of English language and literature at the University of Chicago, has written a poignant, powerful...
Four Reasons Why Christians Are Smarter than We Used to Be
Calvin College recently hosted a session with four of its most esteemed alumni and former professors: George Marsden, Richard Mouw, Alvin...
Evangelicals and the Canadian Election
Just finished talking about the election on Monday with friends Angus Reid and Janet Epp Buckingham on Drew Marshall‘s radio show. A few...
Pay for Part-Time Teaching
A friend writes: I’m a full time pastor, but teach a couple of courses at small Christian colleges/seminaries. How do I begin to think...
Top 10 Reasons Pastors Should Avoid Politics
National Public Radio, among many other sources, features news of hundreds of American pastors attending workshops to learn how better to...
On Sabbaticals
A friend is beginning a sabbatical and asked for advice about how to think about it and use it well. Some thoughts, therefore, from...
Right in the Wrong(est) Places
The Epistle to the Philippians begins with Paul identifying himself as a “slave of Messiah Jesus.” And, at the time, he might have felt...
History Matters
Adam Gopnik, reviewing a book on the Paris Commune of 1871 in The New Yorker, offers this powerful observation: Historians from the right...
Mini Courses
Understand key ideas in important Christian theology, ethics, and history in 30 minutes (or less!) in ThinkBetter Media's mini-courses, created by award-winning theologian and historian Dr. John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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