A Window onto a (Much) Larger World: Jacques Ellul (1912-1994)
My Marxist professor seemed genuinely surprised. Young David Gregory, a newly minted Ph.D. from Queen’s University at Kingston,...
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Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Paul on Humility: Some Inconvenient Lessons from Recent Scholarship
Theologians and ethicists, like pastors and parents, ought to strive to make concepts as simple as possible and implications as clear as...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
- 4 min
Role Reversals in the Gospel
As one muses upon the Haustafeln—the “household codes” Paul discusses in Ephesians and Colossians that set out the roles of husbands and...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
- 4 min
Where Is the Final List of Christian Virtues?
How can a teacher teach a good, clear lesson in the elements of Christian virtue?
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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The Americanness of CRT Outrage
As a Canadian with a nodding acquaintance of things American (I pursued graduate studies including American religious history at Wheaton...
Is that why Christians are in the world?
Did Jesus really die on a cross merely to inspire honorable, but otherwise unremarkable, lives?
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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First Nations and Canada's Priorities
Reasonable people of good will can be understandably confused about some of the knottier questions regarding native land claims,...
The Beatitudes by Way of Deuteronomy
Scholars of the Bible recognize the pattern of blessing + cursing in the Book of Deuteronomy. As Jesus gave his Beatitudes, I wonder if...
Civil Disobedience for Christians
Even the movements under Gandhi and King provoked tremendous violence and highly ambiguous outcomes
Sez Who?
In Mark 9:33-37, Jesus asks his disciples what they were talking about on the road. What they should have been talking about was what he...
When Theological Disputation Is Too Much…
Observation: If you hear the first nine, it doesn’t matter about the tenth.
The conversation is already over.
Only politics remains.
Throw Away All Your Ravi Zacharias Books? Or All Your Luther?
A friend grieves the news of a report on Ravi Zacharias’s awful sins. And there are more on the public record now that don’t show up in...
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...
Why I Attack Certain Public Figures
A couple of friends have asked me why I’m uncharacteristically mordant about certain people I have dealt with on social media. These...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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The Seven Deadly Signs
Ministries that Think They Can Do No Financial Wrong Are Deceiving Themselves I published this article twenty years ago. I regret to say...
On “Dr. Jill Biden” & Medical Status Anxiety
The ignoramus who wrote in the WSJ about Jill Biden not being a real doctor (because she isn’t a physician, but holds a Doctor of...
Whose Issue?
City streets are filling with demonstrators on behalf of black and indigenous victims of police brutality, and against racism generally....
Should the Statues Come Down?
It’s easy to mock all the statue-removers as crazy mobs accomplishing nothing on behalf of the real victims of racism, past and present....
Quebec, Education, Parents, Religion: A Recipe for Conflict
The Coalition Avenir Québec continues its remarkable record of concentrating power in the provincial government on behalf of its pure...
“The Future Is Already Here…”
So says William Gibson, the American author who followed his wife to her native Vancouver and from there has spun out his tales of the...
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