Yesterday, Canada’s leading evening news program, The National, broadcast a short six-minute documentary on the John Stackhouse case. What is particularly significant is that the documentary introduces two witnesses to the public: Courtney and Indira. This is significant because the original Summary of Findings of the investigation posted by Crandall University was anonymous. And as […]
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The Fall of John Stackhouse? An Analysis of the Investigation
On November 23, CBC posted the news that one of Canada’s leading evangelical scholars, John Stackhouse, had been terminated by Crandall University for sexual harassment of students. Later on that morning, I wrote a quick response to the situation. But I decided yesterday instead to expand significantly my analysis. This is that expanded and revised […]
Christianity for the Hesitant: An Interview with John Stackhouse
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 […]
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, […]
