Faith | ThinkBetter Media

Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE

2 min

Worse than Useless

One of the Old Testament expressions for sin is "to twist"—to misshape something from its true nature and its intended purpose. That...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

4 min

PIETY

Jesus, not Magic

The Sunday School teacher searches the small faces of her class to find someone with the answer to her question. As usual, little Danny...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

4 min

APOLOGETICS

How to Decide about the Big Questions

My last post answered questions from Down Under about why we should trouble ourselves to try to answer life’s most troubling questions:...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

1 min

BIBLE

On the Feast of Stephen

Today is the Feast of St. Stephen, one of the two sad days during the Twelve Days of Christmas. Unlike the other sad day, the Feast of...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

ETHICS

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...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

4 min

THE CHRISTIAN WAY

How Can I Block Out the Cruelty?

The stereotype of the schizophrenic is a poor soul beleaguered by a cacophony of voices telling him what to do. But we all now are...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

1 min

PIETY

Faith as Yessing

Faith is often defined as a posture, an attitude, especially a posture or attitude of trust. I have gladly defined it that way myself....

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.

2 min

CHURCH

Expectations for Christian Leadership

I’ve had reason recently to consider patterns of Christian leadership among evangelicals around the world. And among fast-growing...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

3 min

APOLOGETICS

Don’t Ask Me to Pray

Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

3 min

APOLOGETICS

Will Science Save Us? From What?

[This was originally posted in March 2019] The late neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—he wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife...

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

2 min

APOLOGETICS

Digging Out

There are two tragedies in life, to paraphrase the famous line from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. One is to fail to gain your...

What “Orthodoxy” Is and Isn’t: Some Questions about Statements

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

6 min

THE CHRISTIAN WAY

What “Orthodoxy” Is and Isn’t: Some Questions about Statements

When someone sits down to specify orthodoxy, he is up to something. Count on it.

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

1 min

APOLOGETICS

Faith, Foolishness, and Fanaticism

Last week I chided the CBC’s Neil Macdonald for his outburst against people of faith whom he clearly would prefer to keep out of sight in...

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.

4 min

THE CHRISTIAN WAY

Fans, Fanatics, and Faith

Chicago Bears football fans, among which I number myself, having cheered for them since our seven years’ sojourn in the Windy City in the...

NEW BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE

Woke: An Evangelical Guide to Postmodernism, Liberalism, Critical Race Theory, and More

Woke: An Evangelical Guide new book by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

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

Mini Courses

Understand key ideas in important Christian theology, ethics, and history in 30 minutes (or less!) in ThinkBetter Media's mini-courses, created by award-winning theologian and historian Dr. John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

Check out The Library

Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE

NEW BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE

Woke: An Evangelical Guide to Postmodernism, Liberalism, Critical Race Theory, and More

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

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

JOHN G. STACKHOUSE, JR.

CONTACT
ThinkBetter@JohnStackhouse.com

Thoughts on CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE

NEW BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE

Woke: An Evangelical Guide to Postmodernism, Liberalism, Critical Race Theory, and More

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

Thoughts on
CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE