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		<title>Am I going to hell because I&#8217;m bisexual?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 15:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  (The following is excerpted from the book Ask John: John Shore’s advice column from the Asheville Citizen-Times, 2016-2019.)   Question: I was baptized a fundamentalist Christian. I’m beginning to think that I might be bisexual. John, will I go to hell if I am? Answer: Finding an answer to this question will inevitably mean answering [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Call me when it&#8217;s National Grab Some Nuts Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Shore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Childfree]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday all Patheos bloggers received an email from Patheos suggesting “trending topics relating to your faith” that we might care to write about.  The first writing prompt had to do with the fact that August 1 was International Childfree Day (which “celebrates people who voluntarily choose not to have children”). We were given four questions [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>My novel won Best New Fiction by American Fiction Awards</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Shore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hi, friends. Wanted to share with you the good news that my debut novel, Everywhere She’s Not has won the 2020 American Fiction Award for Best New Fiction. Earlier this year it was also named a finalist for both the Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize and the First Novel Prize at the Indie Book Awards. I blogged [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christians shouldn&#8217;t get depressed? What BS.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Shore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dear John]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA["Any person who makes a point of telling you how God feels about you wouldn't know God from hollow gourd. Feel free to shake off such people like the proverbial dust from your shoes. Makes going forward a lot easier."]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Can this born-again gay Christian woman find happiness?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnshore/2020/07/lets-help-this-christian-lesbian-take-out-the-garbage/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Shore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2020 21:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Issues]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I want to share with you a letter written to me by a lesbian Christian. Here it is: Dear John, I’m a lesbian (a dyke, butch, a girl who looks like a man), and I’m a born-again Christian. I was an active worker of the church, back home in my country (Philippines), where my dad [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t more Christians act like Christ?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Shore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Issues]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear John, Why do you think it is that so many people who say they’re Christian are okay with acting in ways that are the opposite of what Christ stood for? My answer: So, taking the gist of your question out from behind its thin veil of accusation, you believe that all Christians should behave [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m in an open marriage. Can I still call myself a Christian?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Shore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Christian Issues]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear John, I am an unfundamentalist reader with a question for you about faith and sexual choices. About three years back, my husband of over a decade and I decided to become non-monogamous. Our initial reasons had to do with lack of sexual compatibility—we both love each other and want to stay married, but in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Where and how Trump is taking us all</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Shore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven’t seen where anyone else has said what I’m about to (although I have to assume many have: there’s only so much news one can take in), so I won’t feel like I did my job during this phase of our collective lives if I don’t say it at least once. On Facebook I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>You Will See That I Have Left</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Shore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Short-short story]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[ You Will See That I Have Left a short story (in letter form) by John Shore Dear Ronny, I know that you were right when you were admonishing me before you went to the deacon’s meeting about how no good as a wife I’ve been to you since last week when daddy died. I know [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Very Best New Year&#8217;s Resolution</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Shore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the day of New Year's Eve, a guy overhears his dad talking smack about his wife.]]></description>
		
		
		
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