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Paradoxes in Passion Week

Thomas Cranmer's prayer (in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer) for Palm Sunday, just past, contains not just one, but two, paradoxes....

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

THEOLOGY

Jesus Mocks

Paul doesn’t speak of Jesus who just died, but of Jesus who was crucified. He thus drives the stake of the Cross into the heart of...

A Bestselling Thriller Author Gets Good Friday Wrong

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

4 min

BIBLE

A Bestselling Thriller Author Gets Good Friday Wrong

In 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 min

APOLOGETICS

The Inescapable Weirdness of Easter

The world’s most popular religion, the world’s largest social movement, the world’s most believed Theory of Everything depends on...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

4 min

APOLOGETICS

Easter: 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.

4 min

APOLOGETICS

Let’s First Get a Few Things Straight

Alas, Christians are denounced still today by people who are confident they know what Christians believe and practice, but who clearly don’t

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

3 min

DISCIPLESHIP

What We Can Learn from Easter 2018

I 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 min

VOCATION

Some Tenebrae Musings

As 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.

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.

3 min

VOCATION

Resurrection…to More of the Same?

Yesterday was the big celebration of the astonishing gift of “another life,” as they say in video games. How will you spend it?

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

DEFINING THE TERMS

Theory Ain’t Belief–Thank God!

Philosopher Alvin Plantinga buries a little gem of insight in a footnote to his massive Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

3 min

CULTURE

The Subversiveness of Easter

What in the world is Easter about? It makes no sense to celebrate the gruesome death of a minor country preacher, making a virtue, as...

What’s Good about (Bloody) Good Friday? Some Thoughts on the Atonement

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

5 min

THEOLOGY

What’s Good about (Bloody) Good Friday? Some Thoughts on the Atonement

A correspondent recently wrote: “I’m more baffled than ever about the Atonement. I sometimes feel like banging my head against the wall...

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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE