On Being and Finding A Friend By John Portmann You need an active subscription to view this contentYou should really subscribe now!Or login if you already have a subscription. Share — Issue: Summer 1998 / Volume 74/3 Published: December 11, 2003 John Portmann Author of When Bad Things Happen to Other People; Sex and Heaven; and Bad for Us. Editor of In Defense of Sin. Teaches in Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia.