John Shore

• 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 Obama and Hillary Clinton are just like Abe Lincoln...
  Wednesday, 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?
  Monday, 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
  Saturday, 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.
  Wednesday, 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?
  Monday, 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.
  Friday, February 8, 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.
  Thursday, February 7, 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.
  Tuesday, February 5, 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 Einstein, for instance, was once fired from his job as...
  Monday, February 4, 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.
  Friday, February 1, 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.
  Thursday, 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 Christians--particularly about their experiences with...
  Wednesday, 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.
  Monday, 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.
  Saturday, 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 ... come on in.
  Thursday, January 24, 2008
• How to Make a Living Writing, Part III
  Thursday, 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 language.” So here’s my case for why writing is no...
  Tuesday, 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 this stuff, way back when.
  Monday, January 21, 2008