John Shore
Besides here on Crosswalk, John blogs on JohnShore.com.
Writer, Editor, Author
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Share Your Skin-Color Story
I have been deeply affected by anecdotes that readers left in response to my last piece, "Black Like Us," wherein they shared moving experiences they'd had in which skin color played the salient...Thursday, November 6, 2008
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Black Like Us
My wife's dad is black. I was once taken in by a black family. My mom used to get beat up at civil rights demonstrations. Today sure as heck isn't yesterday. Praise the Lord.Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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Join My Facebook Fan Club, or the Hairy Shut-In Gets Hurt
If you like my writing, won't you consider joining my Facebook fan page? Don't do it just for me. Don't do it just for yourself. Do it for the children.Monday, November 3, 2008
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I Break With Thee; I Break With Thee; I Break With Thee
My last blog break broke. But this one will hold, or my name isn't Moriarity Funklebrunker. Couch, here I come!Monday, October 27, 2008
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Godly Lessons I Learned From a Dog
People love stories about Important Life Lessons learned from a dog. Here are a few things about God I learned through the two weeks I just spent caring for a dog I called (despite its name being...Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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Beyond the Christianization of Abortion
"What I think is important overall, especially right now, is that we Christians remember that being Christian gives us no uniquely deep claim on abhorrence to abortion. Abortion is as much a...Monday, October 20, 2008
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Will God Forgive Me if I Don't Vote for McCain?
Here's my response to the reader who wrote me to say, "How could any 'christian' [sic] even consider voting for anyone other than Senator McCain!"Sunday, October 19, 2008
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How I Blog (and Why I'm Taking a Break From It)
Man, I really should think of something Witty and Engaging to write right here. And I will. I will. Seriously. Any minute now...Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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I've Finally Gone to the Dogs
"'Oh, no,' said one of my lunch-mates, an author of "Christian Living"-type books. 'I've done work like that before. It drives you crazy. You have to turn everything that happens to you into a...Saturday, October 11, 2008
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Our Church: "Wanna Be a Deacon? Then Sign This Anti-Gay Statement"
"After my wife Cat and I had spent six years as members of our very first church home, we were asked to sign a document asserting that under no circumstances should anyone involved in a same-sex...Thursday, October 9, 2008
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No Offense, But I Can't Care What You Think About My Christianity
"I don't care what my neighbor thinks Christianity is. I don't care what members of the church up the street think Christianity is. I don't care what any Christian leader, pastor, author, or...Monday, October 6, 2008
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After I Converted, the Terrible Way Christians Treated My Non-Christian Wife
After I converted, my wife of 17 years began accompanying me to church. She liked what she learned there about Christianity. She did not at all like what she learned there about (some) Christians.Friday, October 3, 2008
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Sex is God's Way of Humbling Us
"We like to think we know and understand God. I think sex is God's immediate, intimate way of irrefutably proving to us, eight thousand times a day, that we haven't even begun to understand him."Thursday, October 2, 2008
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Humbled by Beginning Writers
My day at a Christian writer's conference.Monday, September 29, 2008
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Anyone But Me Getting Nervous?
American financial institutions: FAIL. Our president: "Our entire economy is in danger." Russia, China, and Hugo Chavez developing unprecedented military might. Um. Anyone else getting just a tad...Friday, September 26, 2008
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John Notes for "Introduction to Western Philosophy"
Everything you need to know about the development of Western philosophy in less time than it takes you to stop laughing at the name "Plato."Thursday, September 25, 2008
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Cliff Notes are Too Long. Here are John Notes for Western Lit 101
The classics of Western literature boiled down to a sentence or two.Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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Letter From an Atheist Married to a Christian
An atheist friend writes about his marriage to a devout Christian woman.Monday, September 22, 2008