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John is the author of I'm OK--You're Not: The Message We're Sending Nonbelievers and Why We Should Stop (NavPress); Penguins, Pain and the Whole Shebang (Seabury Books); and co-author, with Richard Lederer, of Comma Sense: A Fundamental Guide to Punctuation (St. Martin's). Both Penguins and Comma Sense won San Diego Book Awards for best books in their respective categories (Religious/Spiritual, and How To/Reference). He is also co-author, with Stephen Arterburn (Every Man's Battle) of Being Christian: Exploring Where You, God and Life Connect, Midlife Manual For Men: Finding Significance in the Second Half, and Regret-Free Living: Tools for Building Strong, Healthy Relationships.
As e-books on Scribd.com, John has made available for downloading or reading online, collections from his blog, entitled Seven Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships (and How to Defeat Each One of Them), How to Make a Living Writing, and My Funniest Stuff. He has also made available his book, I'm OK--You're Not: The Message We're Sending Nonbelievers and Why We Should Stop.
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(Last night I dreamed I was a big deal television talk show host, and that my guest that night was Death.)
Me: Welcome to the show.
Death: Thanks! It's great to be here.
Me: I hate you.
Death: Excuse me?
Me: I mean, I hate you haven't made a movie in so long. I guess you've got one out now, though. What's it called? "Annie Hell"? "Singing in the Pain"? "Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner"?
Death: I don't have a movie out.
Me: "The Flim-Flam Man"?
Death: I don't have a movie out.
Me: You don't?
Death: No.
Me: Then why are you here? Don't tell me you finally wrote a book of your own.
Death: Nope. The reason I'm here is because you invited me here.
Me: Whoa---whoa there, Reapster. I didn't invite you here. I don't like you. I don't like your work. I never have.
Death: But this is your show. Why would I be here if you didn't invite me?
Me: I have no idea.
Death: I guess your sponsors invited me.
Me: No. My sponsors don't run this show. I run this show.
Death: Oh, come on. I think we both know better than that.
Me (standing): Get out. There's been a terrible mistake. I want you off this show. This is a happy show. This is a show about making people feel good. It's about having fun. You don't belong here. Get out.
Death: But my segment isn't over.
Me: Yes it is. Good-bye.
Death: I'm sorry, John. Really, I am. But I'm afraid I just haven't done yet what I came here to do.
Me: Get out! Get off my stage! Leave this building! You're not welcomed here! You have no business here! Go away!
(Death remains placidly gazing out toward the audience. My in-house band begins playing, softly at first, and then increasingly loud, until I can't even hear myself screaming. Though I'm unaware of it, we cut to commercial.)
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