John G. Stackhouse, Jr., was born in Canada and raised in southwestern England and northern Ontario. A graduate of Queen's University in Ontario (B.A., History, with First Class Honours), Wheaton College Graduate School in Illinois (M.A., Theological Studies, summa cum laude), and The University of Chicago (Ph.D., History and Theology of Christianity), he taught European history at Northwestern College, Iowa, and Modern Christianity at the University of Manitoba before taking up the Sangwoo Youtong Chee Chair of Theology and Culture at Regent College, an international graduate school of Christian studies affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 2015, he became the inaugural Samuel J. Mikolaski Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of Faculty Development at Crandall University, and left that position at the end of 2023.
He is the author of eleven books; co-author, editor or co-editor of eight more; author of dozens of refereed journal articles and university press book chapters; and author of hundreds of articles and reviews in periodicals and reference works.
In 2022 he co-founded ThinkBetter Media, an online learning platform that explains theology, ethics, and history in brief and balanced lessons online to help Christians and leaders engage effectively in contemporary culture.
He has been interviewed by most of the major North American television networks (ABC, NBC, PBS, CBC, CTV, and Global) and his work has been featured by print media as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, Time, and even Reader's Digest. He has lectured at major universities such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Edinburgh, and Fudan, and has addressed audiences throughout North America as well as in the United Kingdom, China, Malaysia, Korea, Israel, India, Australia, New Zealand, and various locales in Europe.
He was a longtime Advisory Editor to Christianity Today magazine, a columnist for Faith Today magazine, an advisor to The Anglican Journal and a weekly blogger for the public affairs television show "Context—beyond the Headlines". He lives in Moncton, New Brunswick, in eastern Canada. Dr. Stackhouse is also a jazz musician, and occasionally gives performances on piano, guitar, electric bass, or trumpet.
