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John Shore
Writer, Editor, Author
Besides here on Crosswalk, John blogs on
JohnShore.com.
How To Get Over The Post-Presidents Day Blues
The bunting's put away; the top hats are back in storage. To help tide you over until the next Presidents Day season, think about how much Barack...
February 20, 2008
How To Observe Presidents Day: Don't Work. Beyond That, I'm Not Sure.
Cross-dressing presidents. Homework on the backs of shovels. Getting paid not to work. What IS Presidents Day, anyway?
February 18, 2008
How to Make Money Writing For Single Atheists With iPhones Who Hate Dieting Christian Homosexuals Who Love Britney Spears
Please don't hate me
February 16, 2008
I'm Now The Kind of Person I Usually Have Issues With
I'm about to become a teacher. Talk about karma.
February 13, 2008
Life. Death. Pretending You're A Crosswalk Guard
Death stalking life. Dancing furniture. Kids following you home from school. Who can really tell what the heck is going on out here?
February 11, 2008
God is Love. Christ is Pain.
Our hearts and our Bible tell us that God is love. And there’s Christ, alone in the wilderness. And there’s Christ, alone on the cross.
February 08, 2008
My Lenten Story Remains Untold. Thanks, Starbucks.
I'm preparing a five-week Lenten study class for a church in Del Mar, California. Not that you'd ever know it.
February 07, 2008
Writing In Jesus' Name. Literally.
Sure, NOW I know this is supposed to land me in hell. Then, I was just trying to get a byline.
February 05, 2008
How To Be Unemployed
Here's the opening Comedy Bit from this post: "Have you recently lost your job? Fear not: It happens to everyone. You might recall that Albert...
February 04, 2008
Me, My Wife, Zen, and the Evangelizing Christian Who Broke The Great Commandment
Back before my wife and I were Christians, a (certainly well-meaning!) Christian tried evangelizing to us. Here's how that went.
February 01, 2008
My Giant Head
Nothing like the freakishly large head of an infant to take one's mind off the strife between Christians and non-Christians, I always say.
January 31, 2008
What Non-Christians Want Christians To Hear
A while back I posted a notice on Craigslists all over the country, asking non-Christians if they have anything they'd like to say to...
January 30, 2008
Top 10 Ways Christians (Including Me) Tend to Fail
We're trying, for sure. Here are 10 ways that I personally would like to see us try even harder.
January 28, 2008
My Big Week in Christian Book Publishing
Just a few things that happened this week with a couple of books of mine.
January 26, 2008
Hello, Students at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research!
Incredibly enough, students at the KIMESR will actually READ what one of their teachers asked me to write for them. If you'd like to, too, then ......
January 24, 2008
Writing is Talking Like Mime is Opera
Some readers have been kind enough to ask me to elaborate on a point I recently made about how talking and writing are “exact opposite uses of the...
January 22, 2008
My Last, Best 10 Tips on How To Make It As A Writer
I know I've done too many of these. Still, I wanted to do One Final Wrap-Up, since, to be honest, I wouldn't have minded if someone had told me...
January 21, 2008
How to Write, Part Four: Why You Should Give Up Finding Your Own Voice
Writers are often very keen on discovering their own, unique writing voice. Here's why they should absolutely give up on that.
January 18, 2008
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