John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minTHE CHRISTIAN WAYThe Feast of the Holy NameIn the recent Marvel series “Loki,” a character refers to the master of the universe as “He Who Remains.” That is all: the one who...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minBIBLE“And the Word Was Made Flesh…”Today is the Feast of St. John the Evangelist. You will appreciate that I have some affinity with and affection for a Christian writer...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 minPIETYFaith as YessingFaith is often defined as a posture, an attitude, especially a posture or attitude of trust. I have gladly defined it that way myself....
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minTHEOLOGYJesus MocksPaul doesn’t speak of Jesus who just died, but of Jesus who was crucified. He thus drives the stake of the Cross into the heart of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minEPISTEMOLOGYHoly Week Prayers: What Do We Really Want?Holy Week brings into focus a number of Big Questions. Among the most searching is this: What do we want? In particular, what do we want...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minCURRENT EVENTSSalacious StupidityI’d love to pile on Jerry Falwell, Jr. for engaging in, and then happily Instagramming, a yacht party (!) in which he, family members,...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minTHE CHRISTIAN WAYCome, Thou Not-Expected JesusThat first Christmas night, the shepherds on that Judean hillside were properly terrified by the Identified Flying Object blazing above...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minVOCATIONSome Tenebrae MusingsAs the time for Tenebrae (Latin “darkness”) services has come again, one thinks of the shrinking circle of light in the Passion narrative...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 minHOLIDAYSThe Great TransfusionAs 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...