Dear LFTP: the 62-year-old widower, dish detergent, and 'cute readers'
- Is there a dish detergent that will actually clean the dishes? (Plus: any 'cute readers' to teach me to clean house?)
A widower whose wife died in July 2011 asks which dish detergent actually cleans dishes, then adds whether the show has any 'cute readers' who would teach an old man to clean house. The hosts roast him as a creeper looking for a maid, not a detergent: he misses what she did for him, not her. Practical answers: Cascade works, Google product reviews, try several, or just use paper plates; YouTube has how-to videos on washing dishes. The secular answer quips that if several detergents failed, he needs a new dishwasher — not a cute young one.
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Holy Spirit experience: healing, cessationism, and testing the spirits
- Is there a normative experience of the Holy Spirit in the world today?
The central hard question: is there a normative experience of the Holy Spirit in the world today, and what does it mean for a follower of Jesus?
From No. 593 · Do You Hear What I Hear
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Dear LFTP 3: Mom's false teeth
- What should the family do with their late mother's false teeth?
Mike reads the letter: the family found their late mother's false teeth — creepy to keep, wrong to discard?
From No. 590 · Theodore Franco
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Dear LFTP: should I attend my murdered niece's funeral?
- Should I attend my murdered niece's funeral after thirty years of family estrangement?
Mike reads a letter from a woman estranged from her brother's family for thirty years whose niece was murdered by her husband in a murder-suicide.
From No. 587 · Coffee After Sunday
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Dear LFTP: AA member who witnessed a life-support withdrawal
- How do I come to terms with accidentally witnessing a fellow AA member's life-support withdrawal?
An AA member writes that while visiting a hospitalized fellow member with cookies, he arrived at the exact moment doctors withdrew life support and witnessed the family's raw grief; he now fears he intruded and caused harm.
From No. 568 · Like Jesus