Many in the learned classes in the West find Christianity to be not only false but intellectually arrested and utterly implausible. They see it as a way of viewing reality that belongs to another generation, one that it is no longer defensible for the educated person today. How does the Christian apologist respond to that […]
John Stackhouse
21st Century Martyr: A conversation on the legacy of John Allen Chau
On November 17th, 2018, 26-year-old Christian missionary John Allen Chau was killed while attempting to evangelize the native Sentinelese people of North Sentinel Island, India. The wake of the tragedy has seen intense global media interest in the case, with many people dismissing Chau as a fatuous thrillseeker, a dangerous zealot, a subversive colonialist … […]
What is Mere Christianity? Part 2: John Stackhouse answers
Introduction Welcome to Part 2 on my “What is Mere Christianity?” series. This entry comes courtesy of leading Canadian theologian and public intellectual, John Stackhouse. Dr. Stackhouse is the Samuel J. Mikolaski Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of Faculty Development at Crandall University in Moncton, New Brunswick. Previously, he was the Sangwoo Youtong Chee […]
82. Is the Church Making Us Stupid? A conversation with John Stackhouse
“The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” And so begins Mark Noll’s 1994 book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. It’s been twenty-two years since Noll shot that provocative salvo across the bow of conservative Christian subculture. So how are we doing now? At first blush, […]
