More headlines: Amelia Earhart and a Maryland church car giveaway
The hosts check more christianheadlines.com items: a professor who may have solved the Amelia Earhart mystery, with a side debate over whether she flew the Spirit of St. Louis (needed to rebut a ten-year-old's school report), plus mentions of Billy Graham and Israel. They read that a Maryland church gave away five used cars — a Chevy Cruze, Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sentra, Ford Escape, and Dodge Journey — in a raffle marking an anniversary. One host jokes that a Toyota Corolla does not qualify as 'outrageously generous.'
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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?
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From No. 603 · Found Out
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Dear LFTP: the $600 lawnmower and buying them a mower
- My nephew's wife took my $600, lied about it, and is avoiding me. Should I say something or let it go?
Mike reads a letter from someone who gave a nephew's wife $600 for a self-propelled lawnmower; she spent it, never bought the mower, and now avoids them.
From No. 587 · Coffee After Sunday
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Dear LFTP: the neighbor Tim and boundaries without guilt
- How can I end the friendship with my difficult neighbor Tim without sending him into a spiral?
Mike reads a letter from a self-described clean-freak friend of a hoarding, narcissistic, government-program neighbor named Tim: how to end the friendship without sending Tim into a spiral.
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Dear LFTP: the $99 birthday bill and "Jesus always pays"
- Was it wrong to be taken aback when I was expected to split the cost of a friend's birthday dinner?
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