Joe's complaint-line letter on phones and podcasts replacing media
- Is relying on my phone a problem when it's how I get all my news, entertainment, and education now?
A complaint-line letter from Joe asks whether relying on the phone is really a problem when it's how all media is consumed now — podcasts having replaced TV, magazines, and newspapers for his generation. The hosts agree the letter is well put: the phone is the primary means by which the world communicates now, and worrying about the transmission method is like valuing the newspaper more because it was cumbersome. Tangents include the Des Moines Register having shrunk to nothing and one host admitting he's never written a check or sent a letter in his life and would have to Google how.
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Dear LFTP: should meteorologists stop saying 'gloomy'?
- Should TV meteorologists stop calling rainy weather miserable, gloomy, or dreary?
A host reads a letter complaining that TV meteorologists calling rain 'miserable,' clouds 'gloomy,' and gray days 'dreary' is irresponsible toward emotionally vulnerable viewers.
From No. 492 · Show Me The Toes
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Declining faith and deaths of despair study
- Is declining faith fueling a rise in deaths of despair?
A host reads a Daily Mail article on a Wellesley College study linking rising 'deaths of despair' (suicide, alcohol and opioid abuse) among middle-aged white Americans to declining faith and church attendance.
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What kids face that parents misread: identity, media, truth in love
- What are kids facing today that their parents are not seeing correctly?
Asked what teenagers experience that parents do not see correctly, Jenny points to media and identity, including sexual and gender identity, which parents do not know what to do with.
From No. 480 · Youth Initiative
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Nathaniel's book-writing crisis, false teachers, and protecting what matters
- How much Christian writing about Jesus is gasbagging versus genuinely necessary?
- How do you identify false teaching?
Nathaniel is in a crisis after reading N. T. Wright's Simply Jesus, feeling like a dumb dumb next to eloquent writers, which opens a discussion of the hubris of writing books…
From No. 454 · Read, Protect, and Complain About Your Husband