John Stackhouse
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John G. Stackhouse, Jr. (b. 1960 in Kingston, Ontario) .
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Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College
BA (Queen’s University, Kingston), MA (Wheaton College), PhD (Chicago)
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Raised in southwestern England and northern Ontario, John Stackhouse received his higher education in Canada and the United States. He began teaching at the International Teams School of World Missions and then Wheaton College, both in suburban Chicago, during his doctoral studies. His first full-time position was as an assistant professor of European history at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa (1987-90). From there, he went to teach Modern Christianity (history, sociology, philosophy, and theology) in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, rising to the rank of professor in 1997. One year later, he left for Regent College in Vancouver (1998-present).
In addition to being the Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent College, John Stackhouse is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia. He researches and teaches about the interaction between Christianity and contemporary North American culture. He is an advising editor at Christianity Today and contributing editor at Books & Culture magazines, and a former columnist with Christian Week, Faith Today, and The Winnipeg Free Press. As a journalist he has been recognized with eight awards by the Canadian Church Press. Stackhouse's work has been featured on most major North American television networks, many radio stations, and numerous print media--ranging from The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic Monthly to Reader's Digest and even Maxim.
John Stackhouse is the author of more than 400 hundred articles, book chapters, and reviews in the history, sociology, and philosophy of religion and in theology. He has edited four books of academic theology, and is the author of six books, including those listed below. He is listed in Canadian Who's Who, The Directory of American Scholars, and Contemporary Authors.
Book titles include: Can God Be Trusted: Faith and the Challenge of Evil; Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today; Church: An Insider’s Look at How We Do It; Finally Feminist: A Pragmatic Christian Understanding of Gender.
