Below is my latest podcast. Listen, share, subscribe, download, write nice things about me on iTunes, try not to stumble off the treadmill or turn the wrong way down a one-way street while listening to it. (more…) Read more
Below is my latest podcast. Listen, share, subscribe, download, write nice things about me on iTunes, try not to stumble off the treadmill or turn the wrong way down a one-way street while listening to it. (more…) Read more
I thought I’d share with you these four letters recently written me. You’ll see that beneath each letter I’ve (too inadequately) responded to it. If you are a straight Christian who believes that you are doing God’s work by continuing to condemn same-sex relationships, please read these letters. Please read the fifty-odd letters from gay Christians that I published in UNFAIR. Please at least remember the letters below the next time your brain tries to tell you the insipid lie... Read more
Hello from America to my Chinese friends! My name is John Shore (or, in Chinese, 蕭約翰). I am 54 years of age. I reside in the large city of San Diego, in the state of California. I am a heterosexual. I have been married to my beautiful wife for thirty-one years. This is me: (more…) Read more
We’ve determined that it’s in the best interests of some of the key players involved in the Ugandan/transgender story to wait a bit before rolling it out. I apologize for any inconvenience. (Greatly, now that I see many of you are visiting via my friends at Advocate.com. Sorry! Allow me to humbly recommend my recent and most excellent posts, “Her letter: My boyfriend, ex-gay ministries, and the church: FAIL,”, As Exodus’s Alan “Pray Away the Gay” Chambers ties his tongue... Read more
Hi, guys. The third show of my podcast is below. Includes: my first church-ish experience; a temporary new mom; definitely not food, no place for art; dysfunctional camping; time before time; angry dad; and washing my hands in holy water. The picture is of me, before we left our house for the first time I’d ever been to church, wearing the Intolerable Outfit I talk about on the podcast. (more…) Read more
Alan Chambers of Exodus International (the flagship “pray-away-the-gay” organization) has just published “Defining Exodus – Letter from Alan Chambers for June 2012,” wherein he attempts to make Exodus seem less retro-insane than most people now understand it to be. Alan’s letter is below. Inserted within it, in bracingly beautiful blue, are my comments on that letter. (The bold parts of Alan’s letter appear that way in the original: they’re his bolds, in other words, not mine.) (more…) Read more
Anyone still clinging to the idea that “ex-gay” ministries are anything but cruel absurdities would do very well to read this letter sent to me last week. (more…) Read more
First of all, let me say happy Monday! A new week! New possibilities! New challenges! New clothes, maybe, if you went out and bought some recently. I dunno. I haven’t bought any new clothes since last time I had a normal job, which was … um … gosh, when I worked in law offices about twenty thousand years ago. (more…) Read more
Hi, guys. Here’s the second episode of my podcast. It’s about how I suddenly became a Christian, and then how my wife and I, since we wouldn’t sign a surprising anti-gay statement, were kicked out of our first church for being Actual Heretics. It’s so unbelievable. Anyway, this episode is the first of a series I’m doing about my whole relationship with church. (more…) Read more
I’m very pleased to announce that my Seven Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships and How to Defeat Each One of Them is now available in paperback for $7.99. Also, the Kindle edition of this book is also now on sale, down from $7.99 to $4.99. Seven Reasons is also available as a NookBook. Sarah Strong is executive director of Not This Girl, an organization whose mission is to “support those affected by sexual and domestic violence through empowerment, resources,... Read more
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