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.3 min readCURRENT EVENTSScandals, Scandals Everywhere: What Can Be Done?It’s been a bad season for Catholics and evangelicals. Catholics are embroiled in a global scandal about who knew and did what about...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 min readEDUCATIONDifferent Schools for Different Folks—or Not? Reflections on Trinity Western’s Law SchoolNo political issue in Canadian history has been more important, contentious, and complex than schooling, and particularly the question of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 min readPOLITICSCanadian Christians’ Trumpian Moment“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 min readETHICSRavi Zacharias and the Case of Christian Credential InflationIf you listen to podcasts, you might want to take in this one. Christianity Today interviewed me recently and thus let me explain in some...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.6 min readTHE CHRISTIAN WAYWhat “Orthodoxy” Is and Isn’t: Some Questions about StatementsWhen someone sits down to specify orthodoxy, he is up to something. Count on it.
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 min readSome Matters Really Are Beneath (Christian) ContemptThe redoubtable Oliver O’Donovan offers us wise words for these times. They were posted and re-posted, you won’t be surprised to learn,...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 min readETHICSTaking a Break from TrumpYes, yes, I know. It’s horrible, but one can’t look away. The slow-motion car wreck that, for many of us, is the U.S. presidency...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 min readEVANGELICALISMAnthropological Confusion, Epistemological Failure: Mainstream Media and Moderate, Orthodox ChristiaA recent article on conservative trolls among the roiling White House press corps in The New Yorker can stand for a general ferment of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 min readDISCIPLESHIPCheap Grace, AgainYou don’t need me to tell you why this famous passage from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s great work, Nachfolge (“Following”–called The Cost of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 min readEVANGELICALISMThe Ghost of Jerry Falwell Haunts the GOP StillThe following post was prompted by the recent Pew poll that found churchgoing white evangelicals (otherwise not defined) as supporting...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 min readEVANGELICALISMGEEZ, am I a "liberal evangelical"?GEEZ magazine has recently offered what they call a typology of contemporary evangelicalism. We pedants would prefer the term...