John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 min readSPORTSThe Shadow Side of Minor SportsIt’s NHL playoff time. The Winnipeg Jets, for whom we cheered when we lived there in the 90’s, have gotten a new lease on life and are...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 min readHISTORYThe Paradoxes of Canada’s National Sport“He shoots! He scores!” It’s playoff time in the National Hockey League, and we Canadians alter our social lives accordingly....
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 min readCHURCHDo Sports Matter to God?With the National Football League season just underway, pennant races on in MLB, university and high school teams soon moving from...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 min readSPORTSTroy Polamalu: Feeling God’s Pleasure“The glory of God is a man fully alive.” — Irenaeus “When I run, I feel his pleasure.” — Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire Troy Polamalu...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.4 min readSPORTSThe Spiritual Glories of…FootballEarly in September, one or another leggy, blonde singer strutted out onto my indefensibly large TV screen to inaugurate another season of...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.3 min readETHICSThe Rules and the Code: Reflections on Olympic Badminton–and HypocrisyAs everyone knows now, four pairs of female badminton players, among the best in the world, were tossed out of the Olympic games for...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.5 min readCIVILITYLaw and Order: Some Vancouverite ReflectionsBy now many of you have seen clips or photos of the criminal nonsense that afflicted the streets and businesses of downtown Vancouver...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 min readMUSICHockey Night in Canada Theme Contest: A Shameless PlugCanadians know (and thanks to Stephen Colbert, so do many others) that the CBC surrendered its longtime musical theme for its premiere...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.1 min readSPORTSDoes God Care about Entertainment?My eldest son, a fan of both films (he is a budding filmmaker) and sports (he is a nut about NFL football and NHL hockey), writes on his...
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.2 min readSPORTSHumility and Humiliation: A Tale of Two QuarterbacksThose of us who care have seen Super Bowl XLI. Those of us who don’t, don’t want to read about it. So I’ll make this brief, and it’ll be...