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2014-07-22T00:36:45-08:00

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Censorship, threats and book-burning: Christians vs. Gays in Singapore

Last updated on: July 22, 2014 at 12:36 am By John Shore

It's easy enough to think the struggle against Christians seeking to negate LGBT people is an American phenomenon. It's not. Read more

Christian Issues

2021-09-30T07:53:59-08:00

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What sexual abuse steals from its victims–and how they can get it back

Last updated on: September 30, 2021 at 7:53 am By John Shore

Young people who are sexually abused by someone they love are through that trauma robbed of something essential that those never so betrayed keep intact with them throughout their lives: their ability to trust in themselves to know when they are safe and when they are not. The lesson abused kids learn is that in their lives no safety zone exists. They live in a state of feeling constantly vulnerability. They never know who they can and can’t trust. They... Read more

Relationships

2015-01-20T07:08:47-08:00

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Help: I’m a lesbian whose Christian girlfriend thinks it’s wrong to be gay

Last updated on: January 20, 2015 at 7:08 am By John Shore

Got in the letter below. I answer following it. Dear John, I am currently in a relationship with another female. We have been together for a year now. She comes from a very conservative Christian background. She is in a constant battle with God over being in an intimate relationship with a female. She has never been with another woman before; I am the only one. Her sister, brother-in-law, stepmom and biological father think us being together is fine. But... Read more

Christian Issues

Dear John

2015-01-14T11:28:41-08:00

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Is suicide a sin?

Last updated on: January 14, 2015 at 11:28 am By John Shore

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A young woman with reason to wonder asks if committing suicide is a sin. Read more

Christian Spirituality

Dear John

2016-04-22T11:28:09-08:00

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Dear gayophobic Christian parents of America

Last updated on: April 22, 2016 at 11:28 am By John Shore

"Prayer warriors needed to help me fight Satan for the soul of my daughter!" she wrote on Facebook. Read more

Christian Issues

Dear John

2015-01-14T11:29:30-08:00

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Come out of the closet, Secretly Progressive Pastors!

Last updated on: January 14, 2015 at 11:29 am By John Shore

If you are a Secretly Progressive Pastor, now is the time for you to step forward and be the person you know God is waiting for you to become. Read more

Christian Issues

2014-07-02T14:32:18-08:00

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A Rhyme for the Time

Last updated on: July 2, 2014 at 2:32 pm By John Shore

A person, a company: They’ve been judged the same! (Dad, Pastor, Investor … what’s in a name?) But women? Still property: men’s vassals, mere fools. For proof ask the men who still write all the rules. So my friend Dan Wilkinson made this of that: Read more

Christian Issues

2015-01-13T10:45:12-08:00

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The Supreme Court’s travesty (and Ginsburg’s brilliant dissension)

Last updated on: January 13, 2015 at 10:45 am By John Shore

History will not be kind in its memory of today’s Supreme Court ruling, a travesty of justice grounded in the same brutish sexism and classism that has always informed the most egregious and shameful rulings of the highest court in our land. In my post of January 23, 12 Reasons the Hobby Lobby Case Should be Dismissed, I wrote: If based upon its moral convictions Hobby Lobby is allowed to pick and choose the medical benefits it covers, why in... Read more

Christian Issues

hobby lobby

2014-06-27T12:13:09-08:00

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Obama invites my guest blogger to the White House

Last updated on: June 27, 2014 at 12:13 pm By John Shore

Southern Baptist Pastor Danny Cortez first decided that being gay is no sin. Then Danny’s 15-year-old son Drew came out to him. Then Danny and Drew bonded even more because of awesomeness. Then Danny told the elders of his church that he no longer believed that being gay is a sin. Instead of summarily firing him (as he thought they might), the elders decided to let Danny share with the church his thoughts and feelings. Because apparently my own work... Read more

Christian Issues

2015-06-29T11:30:54-08:00

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Gay porn as published by Christians fundamentalists (NSFW)

Last updated on: June 29, 2015 at 11:30 am By John Shore

I was idly browsing the books section of my local Craigslist site when I came across the books below. I believe they suffice as evidence that somewhere along the way, Christian fundamentalists decided to operate from within the ranks of their enemy by publishing gay porn. The lessons we must assume these books attempt to impart? The title of the first book speaks for itself. My guess is that the second book seeks to prove that once a... Read more

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