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 minEPISTEMOLOGYJimmy (and Billy) Kimmel and the Power of OneTelevision audiences throughout North America and beyond have been riveted by the recent opening to talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel’s...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minMEDIAEvangelicals, Elites, and Alternative FactsMolly Worthen, a reputable scholar of American evangelicalism who teaches at the estimable University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill,...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minEPISTEMOLOGYBeware the Power of “Story”“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.” Well, let’s see. Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 minMULTICULTURALISMOn Forbearance and ListeningMy wife once brought me up short, years ago, by suggesting that a man telling women to calm down when they wanted to express their pain...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minEPISTEMOLOGYWell, Maybe, Sister Anne…Concerned friends have asked me about Anne Graham Lotz’s recent call to prayer that will culminate tomorrow (July 7) in a 7-hour time of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 minEPISTEMOLOGYThe Giveaway’s Gone…but the Launch LoomsThanks to the good people at Goodreads and Oxford University Press, 10 of the 450+ people who signed up for the Goodreads Giveaway of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 minPIETYMerton Channels ScrewtapeHere’s a challenging passage from Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation that will bring many of us up short: The devil is not afraid...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minGENDERC. S. Lewis and the Test of CoherenceIn Miracles (the book that gets my vote as the best generally overlooked book by C. S. Lewis), Lewis makes a point about the plausibility...