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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE

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Advent Then and Now

Creator comes as creature, Lion as lamb. Alpha begins as new life (Omega will die), Almighty as all-needy, The Word as infant, The Rock...

The Transfiguration—and the Exceeding of Expectations

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

4 min

JESUS

The Transfiguration—and the Exceeding of Expectations

Today, August 6, is the Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ. This astounding story offers the Church many lessons, and...

The Ascension of the God Who Remains One of Us

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

3 min

JESUS

The Ascension of the God Who Remains One of Us

Europeans do like their titles. And why shouldn’t they? They have some excellent ones. I was attending a meeting in Britain of university...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

EVIL

What Would It Take to Forgive Mel Gibson?

Mel Gibson is still among the most reviled people in Hollywood. We all know about his bitter, violent anti-Semitism. And there’s more in...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

1 min

HOLIDAYS

Holy Week Posts 2016

I’m late publishing this kind of post this year, but in case you’d like some material for further reflection this Eastertide: On...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

VOCATION

What Will We Want Jesus to Want from Us?

Reading in Matthew 14 this morning, I was impressed afresh at the Apostle Peter’s audacity. I wonder if I, on the verge of 2016, will...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

5 min

MISSION

Allah and Yhwh…and Tash and Aslan

Just a little more on this issue of “Which God is which?” As I implied at the end of my previous post, but now will say explicitly: I...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

1 min

HOLIDAYS

The Great Transfusion

As we travel through Lent, we recall Luther’s speaking, in a letter to Georg Spenlein (1516), of Holy Week as the occasion of the Great...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

DISCIPLESHIP

The Continual Unpredictability of a Straight Line

As one looks at Jesus in the Gospels, one sees the Lord carving through the world as a straight line of integrity, purpose, holiness, and...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

4 min

JESUS

Image Search

Sitting in my bedroom for my morning time of prayer today, reading Aleksandr Men’s An Inner Step toward God again, slowly, I came across...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

1 min

JESUS

Jesus of the Scars

Perhaps no war left so many veterans alive but horribly scarred as did the First World War, that war of gases and incendiaries, bayonets...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

1 min

HOLIDAYS

Holy Week Posts

Over the last few years, I’ve posted several reflections pertinent to Holy Week. Some of you (especially those of you preparing sermons!)...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

6 min

PIETY

Are You Lovable?

This apparently bizarre question pops up over and over again in Christian worship and theology. It was posed to me recently by a friend...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

HOLIDAYS

As St. Nicholas Would Agree, So Much More and Better

Friend Dennis Danielson, professor of English at the University of British Columbia, sent along this passage from the seventeenth-century...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

HOLIDAYS

How the Baby Protects Us

There is nothing like truth to extinguish pride: Here is the way things really are. Here is the way I really am. This is what really...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

DISCIPLESHIP

All We Need Is Love–but Like This

I’ve been reading the fourteenth-century spiritual advisor Walter Hilton of late. He seems just the right sort of advisor: realistic,...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

3 min

APOLOGETICS

The Ascension: Did Jesus Pass Saturn on His Way Up?

A new friend writes: George Stroumboulopoulos had Bill Maher on his program talking about his film ‘Religulous’. Bill asked a question,...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

1 min

HOLIDAYS

Holy Weekend Thoughts

Over the last few years, I’ve offered readers some musings on Good Friday and Easter. For those who missed them the first time ’round: On...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

1 min

HOLIDAYS

A Palm Sunday Thought

Lo, your King comes to you, mighty and imposing, if also in need of protection, in an armoured limousine surrounded by bodyguards, police...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

3 min

APOLOGETICS

The Helpful Strangeness of Jesus

A friend recently confided in me that he was afraid of dying. A lifelong Christian, he has recently been plagued by doubts, and...

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Thoughts on
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Thoughts on CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE

NEW BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE

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A brief and balanced introduction and response to the culture of "woke" for busy people.

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