John Shore

I have been deeply affected by anecdotes that readers left in response to my last piece, "Black Like Us," wherein they shared moving experiences...

My wife's dad is black. I was once taken in by a black family. My mom used to get beat up at civil rights demonstrations. Today sure as heck isn't...

If you like my writing, won't you consider joining my Facebook fan page? Don't do it just for me. Don't do it just for yourself. Do it for the...

My last blog break broke. But this one will hold, or my name isn't Moriarity Funklebrunker. Couch, here I come!

People love stories about Important Life Lessons learned from a dog. Here are a few things about God I learned through the two weeks I just spent...

"What I think is important overall, especially right now, is that we Christians remember that being Christian gives us no uniquely deep claim on...

Here's my response to the reader who wrote me to say, "How could any 'christian' [sic] even consider voting for anyone other than Senator McCain!"

Man, I really should think of something Witty and Engaging to write right here. And I will. I will. Seriously. Any minute now...

"'Oh, no,' said one of my lunch-mates, an author of "Christian Living"-type books. 'I've done work like that before. It drives you crazy. You have...

"After my wife Cat and I had spent six years as members of our very first church home, we were asked to sign a document asserting that under no...

"I don't care what my neighbor thinks Christianity is. I don't care what members of the church up the street think Christianity is. I don't care...

After I converted, my wife of 17 years began accompanying me to church. She liked what she learned there about Christianity. She did not at all...

"We like to think we know and understand God. I think sex is God's immediate, intimate way of irrefutably proving to us, eight thousand times a...

My day at a Christian writer's conference.

American financial institutions: FAIL. Our president: "Our entire economy is in danger." Russia, China, and Hugo Chavez developing unprecedented...

Everything you need to know about the development of Western philosophy in less time than it takes you to stop laughing at the name "Plato."

The classics of Western literature boiled down to a sentence or two.

An atheist friend writes about his marriage to a devout Christian woman.