Dear LFTP: the stolen wedding wine glasses
- Should we ask the wedding guests who took the hand-painted keepsake wine glasses to return them?
A listener writes that her niece hand-painted wine glasses as keepsakes for each adult guest at her daughter's wedding reception; by evening's end, glasses had vanished from the family table, the head table, and the artist's own table — some out-of-town guests took four to six each, one woman's child making multiple trips to her car. Question: should they ask for the glasses back? The hosts land on yes, ask — it's theft, not entitlement. They debate 1 Corinthians 6:7 ('why not rather be defrauded?'): Ben clarifies that verse is about lawsuits between believers that expose the church to worldly courts, not a ban on confronting theft. Secular's answer: ask, but there's no guarantee they'll be returned; don't let it cause in-law problems before the marriage begins; maybe the artist will paint another pair for the bride and groom.
More on Forgiveness
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Dear LFTP: the $4,200 loan that never came back
- How do I get past the sadness over the $4,200 loan my friend never repaid — do I just let it go?
The final Dear LFTP letter: a year ago a supposed friend asked to borrow money — her husband had left the country to renew his visa, her car was repossessed, she had no way to get to work.
From No. 603 · Found Out
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Dear LFTP: the stolen college fund and telling the 90-year-olds
- Should I tell my 90-year-old parents that their grandson stole my granddaughter's college fund?
Ben hands to Mike, who reads a grandmother's letter: her son helped himself to the college money the great-grandparents set aside for her granddaughter; she fears telling her parents, in their nineties, could shock them into a stroke.
From No. 586 · Nothing Personal
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Dear LFTP: forty years of a cheating wife and a temptation
- Would it be wrong to rekindle an old friendship for intimacy when my wife has cheated for forty years?
A man approaching his fortieth anniversary writes that his wife has always been a serial cheater, a secret he kept to protect the children's view of her; with retirement and a sexless marriage he asks whether rekindling things with old female friends would be wrong.
From No. 581 · Silly Rabbit | Christianity, Culture, and Navigating Social Expectations
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Dear LFTP: the stalker ex-girlfriend
- How do I get my stalker ex-girlfriend to leave me alone?
Mike reads a letter from a man whose ex-girlfriend keeps trying to get him back, even stalking him, after he blocked her number.