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June 29, 2012
Dragged by my neck out of Sunday School! [Podcast]
Below is my latest podcast. Listen, share, subscribe, download, write nice things about me on...
June 28, 2012
Four letters: Tell me again, evangelicals, how God approves of what’s done to gay people in His name
I thought I'd share with you these four letters recently written me. You'll see that...
June 27, 2012
Hello, gay Christians in China!
Hello from America to my Chinese friends! My name is John Shore (or, in Chinese,...
June 23, 2012
We’ve decided to pull this story
We've determined that it's in the best interests of some of the key players involved...
June 21, 2012
New podcast episode: Play-Doh isn’t food
Hi, guys. The third show of my podcast is below. Includes: my first church-ish experience;...
June 20, 2012
As Alan “Pray Away the Gay” Chambers ties his tongue in a knot …
Alan Chambers of Exodus International (the flagship "pray-away-the-gay" organization) has just published "Defining Exodus –...
June 19, 2012
Her letter: “My boyfriend, ex-gay ministries, and the church: FAIL”
Anyone still clinging to the idea that "ex-gay" ministries are anything but cruel absurdities would...
June 18, 2012
How to make a cop insist that you get out of his car
First of all, let me say happy Monday! A new week! New possibilities! New challenges!...
June 15, 2012
Episode 2 of my podcast: Booted from my church for being a heretic
Hi, guys. Here's the second episode of my podcast. It's about how I suddenly became...
June 14, 2012
“Seven Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships”: paperback, Kindle sale, review
I'm very pleased to announce that my Seven Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships and...
June 13, 2012
It’s not about the gay issue; it’s about restoring our devastated mountaintop
"If you're not with us you're against us." "What you call the middle ground I...
June 11, 2012
Christians and LGBT Equality: There Is No Middle Ground
(This post first appeared on my blog at JohnShore.com, where it was shared 10,200 times.)...
June 10, 2012
“It’s no sin to be gay.” See how easy that was, Andrew Marin?
So let's be clear about this: Andrew Marin makes his living dancing around in the...
June 09, 2012
Me thinks the lady doth protest the right amount
This won't make sense to you unless you've read yesterday's Symphony of a Thousand, but...
June 07, 2012
Symphony of a Thousand
The struggle for LGBTQ civil rights is like a great symphony now being played. The...
June 06, 2012
Christians: Are we evolving yet?
Last night I saw that on my FB page someone had linked to a story...
June 05, 2012
Want my tongue in your ear once a week?
So I started this podcast, right? (On iTunes here; on Soundcloud—where its RSS is—here.) I...
June 04, 2012
16, Christian, and surrounded by bigots: Dan Savage invites me to answer
Dan Savage asked me to step in and answer a letter he'd received from a...
June 02, 2012
A Taiwanese Christian lesbian everyone should know
Due to pressures exerted upon her by church leaders in her country, Ting Lin has...
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