Dear LFTP: Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart in the funeral book
- Should I confront the pallbearer who wrote joke celebrity names in my husband's funeral memorial book?
A widow writing thank-you notes discovered a pallbearer — her brother-in-law — wrote 'Mick Jagger' and 'Rod Stewart' in the memorial book; her teenage daughters found it disrespectful. The hosts land on 'you're overreacting, but let it go': grieving people do weird things, confrontation solves nothing. Secular's answer disagrees: she is not overreacting and should tell her sister-in-law.
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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