How to Win Friends and Influence People—Christianly
My previous post excoriates the snide, tendentious article by Prof. Matthew Sutton as he finds fault (or thinks he does) with a...
top of page
Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
- 9 min
The New Yorker's Weird Double Standard
Still, as much as Wood professes to believe in “pinching ourselves from time to time with good, strong secular fingers” he can’t help hating
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
- 5 min
Apologetics: Why Don't People Want to Listen to Us?
Why is it so hard to share our faith with our families, friends, and neighbours and what we can do nonetheless to obey the Lord?
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
- 4 min
How to Decide about the Big Questions
My last post answered questions from Down Under about why we should trouble ourselves to try to answer life’s most troubling questions:...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
- 6 min
The Meaning of Life? Why Should I Care? A Historian's take by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
Why do, or should, the Big Questions matter? Why bother trying so hard when the world’s greatest thinkers have deeply differed?
Re-Launching “Can I Believe?”
COVID-19 has affected matters great and small. Among the smaller matters has been the launch of my latest book, Can I Believe?...
Why “Mere Christianity” Should Have Bombed
Sixty years ago, London publisher Geoffrey Bles first released a revision of four sets of radio talks by an Oxford literature don. The...
The Inescapable Weirdness of Easter
The world’s most popular religion, the world’s largest social movement, the world’s most believed Theory of Everything depends on...
Is Hell Eternal?
People don’t suffer and die in hell because God chooses to torture and kill them.
Churches and COVID-19
I’ve held fire on this subject until now. But a number of folk have asked me to comment, and the court cases are increasing across...
Are Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel Lost?
One of the great obstacles to Christian faith in our time is the traditional teaching that all who have not heard and received the Gospel...
Don’t Ask Me to Pray
Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its...
Franklin Graham, John MacArthur, and Church-and-State
A few friends have seen this post on Facebook and asked me to re-post it here to make it easier for them to share. Franklin Graham...
3 Geniuses on Vacation
George Steiner, the literary critic, Wynton Marsalis, the celebrated trumpeter, and Doug Gilmour, the Hall-of-Fame hockey player, walk...
Cracks in the Darwinist Wall
Maverick computer scientist David Gelernter set off a grenade in the faculty dining room last spring. His essay, “Giving Up Darwin,”...
“On Earth as It Is in Heaven”—or Would That Be Boring?
The Lord’s Prayer teaches us to ask for more heaven on earth (Matthew 6:10). But that’s the last thing many people want—at least, it is...
Easter: Who Needs It?
The world’s great religions offer what millions of people want: a sensible, straightforward path to life. That’s why those religions are...
Will Science Save Us? From What?
[This was originally posted in March 2019] The late neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—he wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife...
Lightsails, Aliens, and the Greatest Discovery Ever
By now, you have probably heard of Oumuamua (Hawaiian for “scout”), the interstellar object hurtling out of our solar system past the...
How are we doing?
“Not too bad.” That’s the common reply on the prairies to a friendly “How are you?” It’s also common out here in my new home in the...
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.
bottom of page