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November 19, 2010
My Friend the Adulterer
The night my married friend suddenly decided to have a one-night stand.
November 18, 2010
Why You Want a Big Book Publisher to Reject Your Book
If you want to publish a book, publish it yourself. If you're not famous you'll...
November 17, 2010
When Should Christians Start Pointing Fingers?
How do you know when it's time for you to get involved with the sinning...
November 15, 2010
Listen to God; Screw the Rest
You and God are co-stars in the only reality show you (or, surprise, He) will...
November 14, 2010
Church Authority, Smurch Schmashmority
Some guy with great hair and a magnetic personality heads a mega-church, and I'm supposed...
November 13, 2010
One Woman’s Conversion Experience (While Driving!)
A woman tells the story of her sudden conversion experience--which happened while she was driving...
November 12, 2010
Just Call Me Mr. Right
Men die early because they can't take the stress of having to know everything all...
November 11, 2010
The Great Escape
As a kid I lived right across the street from a school for mentally handicapped...
November 10, 2010
Letter From an Atheist Man Married to a Christian Woman
What's it like being an atheist man married to an atheist woman?
November 09, 2010
Meet Paul Lynde, the Original Roger from “American Dad”
Young people: If you like the deliciously acerbic, perfectly-pitched character Roger from TV's "American Dad,"...
November 09, 2010
A Reader Asks, “How Do You Handle the Negative Comments On Your Blog?”
Here's an email I got in this past weekend (from "denver," who is one of...
November 08, 2010
Advent, Easter and Ordinary Time: Knowing the Christian Calendar
Since ancient times, Christians have used the Christian calendar (also called the liturgical year) to...
November 07, 2010
And the Winning Picture Is …
The winner of the First (and Last) Annual Photoshop John Gesturing Contest is ... well,...
November 05, 2010
Agnosticism: The perfect answer that can’t deliver
As a rational response to the question of God, agnosticism is unassailable stance. So then...
November 04, 2010
If Your Family Has Attitudes This Time of Year, Use the Beatitudes to Stay in Good Cheer
Dreading upcoming family gatherings for the holidays? This reading of the Beatitudes just might quell...
November 02, 2010
Results of the Photoshop Gesturing John Contest!
Hello, friends, and others of you who obviously enjoy stretching the meaning of that word....
November 02, 2010
God Votes Republican and/or Tea Party? Really?
Show me someone who's sure what political party God belongs to, and I'll show you...
November 01, 2010
Morcheeba’s Singer Sings to Me Over the Phone; Roving Gangs of Soon Sick Teens; Ghostly Me
Ah, Monday. It's just like Friday or Saturday---if you strapped on a backpack full of...
October 2010
October 31, 2010
And the Difference Between Life and Halloween Is?
Ah, Halloween. The name is derived from the Latin word hollow---meaning temporary, fleeting---and ween, as...
October 29, 2010
Protection from a witness program
Shame on this Christian---and on any Christian who does what he did.
October 28, 2010
An Important Note About Me From a Pastor
Far be it from me to in any way try to influence the extraordinary creativity...
October 27, 2010
Announcing the Official “Photoshop Gesturing John” Contest
Okay, fine. I wanted to innocently share a bit of what it was like during...
October 26, 2010
This is so, so wrong …
Curse you, Ben Husmann! (And I'm not thrilled with you either, Don Whitt! You started...
October 26, 2010
Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
Sure, we all had some fun yesterday with the pictures I put up of me...
October 25, 2010
Surely I Gesture
Here are a few photos snapped of me snapped yesterday morning during my talk at...
October 24, 2010
It’s Like You’re God — Except Really Different
Jesus turned dead people back into alive people. That gave him, shall we say, a...
October 23, 2010
What Non-Christians Want Christians To Hear
Here's a small sampling of the responses I got when I asked non-Christians about being...
October 22, 2010
Speaking of Burning Buildings
It's Friday afternoon. I'm sitting in this place. I am not drunk. But from the...
October 22, 2010
Legalizing Immigrants vs. Twelve Dollars for a Head of Lettuce
Lately I have had (as have all of us) reason to wonder if there's a...
October 21, 2010
Me, Narrow-Minded, Shallow, and Mean-Spirited? Trust Me: You Have No Idea
So I'm in a Starbucks---where over the sound system they're just now playing Sly Stone's...
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