John G. Stackhouse, Jr. 2 minHOLIDAYSThe House of ChristmasMy favourite Advent poets are Luci Shaw and Mark Noll (yes, that Mark Noll). But G. K. Chesterton turned out a few good pieces also, and...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minTHE CHRISTIAN WAYIs Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” a Christmas Song?How about Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” instead? You might wonder if these are trick questions…. Cohen’s song was made famous by both the...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 minBIBLEA Bestselling Thriller Author Gets Good Friday WrongIn his popular recent novel, The Order, thriller writer Daniel Silva decides in the name of Judaism to launch a missile at Christianity....
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.4 minAPOLOGETICSEaster: 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...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minDISCIPLESHIPWhat We Can Learn from Easter 2018I write this on Good Friday 2018, but I could have written something like it on any day, any year. For the more some things change, it...
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.3 minVOCATIONLife on the Fifth of JulyWe Canadians and Americans have just emerged from the holiday weekend celebrating our respective countries’ nativities and histories....
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 minHISTORYCanada: Getting Worse—and BetterThe name of our national holiday is, not to put too fine a point on it, very Canadian. The first day of July commemorates the July 1,...