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2012-12-31T08:19:41-08:00

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Old Lang’s sign

Last updated on: December 31, 2012 at 8:19 am By John Shore

I miss old Lang. He was a good guy. So wise. I never learned Lang’s last name. Or maybe I never learned his first. I don’t know. No one ever called him anything but Lang. (more…) Read more

Personal

2012-12-26T11:47:03-08:00

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The Cliff Notes guide to the NRA’s response to Sandy Hook

Last updated on: December 26, 2012 at 11:47 am By John Shore

If you missed the NRA’s response to the Sandy Hook tragedy—being the speech read last Friday by the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre—below is that speech in a nutshell; it’s the Cliff Notes version of it, if you will. The phrases are presented in the order in which they appear in the speech. I would hate to be the person arguing that LaPierre’s speech was not shamelessly inflammatory, a grossly irresponsible exercise in fear-mongering, and an unconscionable ploy to use the Sandy... Read more

Christian Issues

2012-12-24T07:28:00-08:00

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Merry Christmas, coyotes and all

Last updated on: December 24, 2012 at 7:28 am By John Shore

It’s 6:30 in the morning. My wife Catherine’s asleep upstairs. Downstairs our Christmas tree gleams in the dim morning light. In the bracing darkness outside a pack of coyotes raises a sudden din of high-pitched yelping that sounds like the horrible hounds of hell on holiday. (more…) Read more

Christian Spirituality

2012-12-21T20:18:28-08:00

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Spending and Shopping with the NRA

Last updated on: December 21, 2012 at 8:18 pm By John Shore

Today the NRA issued its official response to the Sandy Hook tragedy. As you’re likely aware the core of that response—a public, no-questions-afterward statement read by the organization’s Vice President Wayne LaPierre—was this statement: (more…) Read more

Christian Issues

2012-12-20T18:00:45-08:00

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Christmas Lament

Last updated on: December 20, 2012 at 6:00 pm By John Shore

Reader Meghan Lin wrote to say, “I don’t comment much at all, but I’m a huge fan of your blog and its awesome community. I wrote this about the recent tragedy, because I process grief by writing poetry. And I just wanted to send it to you. That’s all.” Attached was Meghan’s poem Christmas Lament. Having read it I wanted to share it. (more…) Read more

Christian Spirituality

2012-12-19T11:57:33-08:00

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I see a little silhouetto of a sheep

Last updated on: December 19, 2012 at 11:57 am By John Shore

Not that I’ve in the slightest way put behind me the Sandy Hook tragedy, of course: who could—ever, which appears to be the singular blessing that might grow out of this most unholy of events. As far as I know the N.R.A. is still planning to issue its Big Statement on the Newtown massacre this Friday; like all of you, I’ll be paying close attention to that statement. (more…) Read more

Christian Issues

2012-12-16T23:58:50-08:00

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Newtown, and what we can do now

Last updated on: December 16, 2012 at 11:58 pm By John Shore

So here we now have on us this unthinkable Newtown tragedy. And we know the cycle of our response to such events: first shock, then grief, then anger, then a slow fade until whatever news next rivets our attention. That’s how it’s done. That’s how we all do it. Except this time it doesn’t quite feel that way, does it? This time it feels different. This time it feels like our cumulative grief and outrage might actually result in something... Read more

Christian Issues

2013-12-06T08:38:42-08:00

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The Mystery of the Disappearing Carolers

Last updated on: December 6, 2013 at 8:38 am By John Shore

Whatever happened to that great tradition of wandering around in the freezing dark singing Christmas songs in the hopes that someone will eventually come out of their house and feed you? Read more

Humor

2014-11-15T14:58:55-08:00

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Joseph and Mary: The Night Before

Last updated on: November 15, 2014 at 2:58 pm By John Shore

A conversation between Joseph and Mary on the big night. Read more

Christian Spirituality

2013-12-15T08:42:29-08:00

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Get thee behind me, Santa!

Last updated on: December 15, 2013 at 8:42 am By John Shore

[READER ADVISORY ALERT: Joke. The below is a joke, with the funny and the laughing and the ho-hoing.] Don’t we Christians want the primary focus of Christmas to be Christ? And don’t all the Pagan Party People pestering us with their perniciously pervasive propaganda promoting puerile, pea-brained positivity want the primary focus of Christmas to be Santa Claus? And doesn’t that mean that Santa Claus’s true identify is Satan, the ultimate anti-Christ? Why yes, it does. (more…) Read more

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