Tag: John Stackhouse
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Book Discussion on “Making the Best of It” by John Stackhouse
If interested, Scot McKnight has just started a book discussion about John Stackhouse's Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World at Jesus Creed. You can read my review here. The discussion is under the title "Christian Realism," and you can find the opening post by clicking here.
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“Making the Best of it: Following Christ in the Real World” Book Review
Who are we for Christ today? This is the central question for John Stackhouse's new book Making the Best of it: Following Christ in the Real World. And let me say from the outset that this is one of the most important books I've ever read on Christian ethics. Stackhouse explains that: “Christian ethics, then,…
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What Scandal? Whose Conscience? – John Stackhouse
Christianity Today: What Scandal? Whose Conscience? – John Stackhouse. I think I linked Stackhouse's blog version of this article earlier. It is practically a book in itself but well worth the read. Some reflections on Ronald Sider's Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. Ronald Sider's sermon to American evangelicals, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, is…
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What Scandal? Whose Conscience?
ChristianityToday.com (Books and Culture): What Scandal? Whose Conscience? by Dr. John Stackhouse. Some reflections on Ronald Sider's Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. Ronald Sider's sermon to American evangelicals, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, is entirely "seasonable," as all good jeremiads are. The Church is always entangled in worldliness of one form or another, and…
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The Sad Irony of Christian Patriarchy
I have just completed John Stackhouse's excellent little book Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender. In Chapter 2, he makes the case that the primary concern of the early Church was not a direct reordering of society but rather to be a witness of an age to come. Consequently, we find little about…
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By Their Honoraria Ye Shall Know Them
John Stackhouse: By Their Honoraria Ye Shall Know Them The way some Christian churches and other organizations pay their speakers, it makes me embarrassed to be a member of the same faith. A friend of mine is a gifted staff worker with a well-known Christian organization on a university campus. He is married, with three…
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Faith of Our Feminists
From Christianity Today Library: Faith of Our Feminists Some evangelicals are joining two ideas that our culture has tried to put asunder. In what could well be the "man bites dog" story of the month, Feminists for Life purchased the historic home of Susan B. Anthony last August. A spokeswoman for the organization said they…