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John G. Stackhouse Jr. let go by Crandall University

The Christian liberal arts university fired Stackhouse for sexual harrassment.

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In late November, CBC news reported that Crandall University terminated the employment of John G. Stackhouse Jr., professor of religious studies, for allegations of inappropriate behavior. After a six-month independent investigation, the Christian liberal arts university in New Brunswick decided that some of Stackhouse’s jokes, stories, emails and classroom behaviour amounted to sexual harassment. Stackhouse criticized Crandall for “turning a private matter into a public spectacle” and is pursuing legal action against the university.

“I’m grateful that [Crandall University] did the right thing in public,” Beth Allison Barr, author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood, posted on Threads. “It’s time for us to stop allowing Christian churches and institutions to sweep this behavior under the rug.”

Faith Today, which ran a column by Stackhouse for more than 20 years, announced that the magazine had quietly removed him as a contributor last spring after hearing of the allegations at Crandall.

Stackhouse taught at the interdenominational Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., from 1998 to 2015, a position he left under the conditions of a Non-Disclosure Agreement. One Regent alumna, now a pastor in B.C., told CC that “I would say the same thing to [Stackhouse] as I’m saying about Regent and all of us alumni: for the gospel, what matters most is what you do next.”

Christian Courier is continuing to follow this story as it unfolds.

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