John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 min readTEACHING AND ACADEMIC LIFEWriting an Essay for an Edited Volume: Should You?It seems like an opportunity. But is it instead merely a temptation? I have recently had conversations with publishers in the UK and USA...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.12 min readTRIBUTESRest in Peace, David Martin (1929-2019)I’ve only just heard that my latter-day mentor in the sociology of religion, David Martin, passed away last month. I confess that I...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 min readTEACHING AND ACADEMIC LIFESome Advice for Students at “Crunch Time”Farmers work harder during harvest than at any other time. But they also work happier, because they see every day the literal fruit of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 min readTEACHING AND ACADEMIC LIFEAdvice for Students in Unsafe Places“But, Professor, I learned in church that God wrote the Ten Commandments himself on stone tablets and gave them to Moses. Isn’t that what...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 min readTEACHING AND ACADEMIC LIFEWhy Spelling CountsStudents often complain about professors meticulously marking spelling…and grammar…and usage…and other sentence-level problems in their...