Dear LFTP: the husband and the open Facebook page
- Am I wrong for feeling threatened by my husband keeping his late wife's Facebook page open?
A Dear LFTP letter: a woman's husband Randall, a widower, keeps his late wife Sylvia's Facebook page open for the grandchildren, and the writer feels threatened. The hosts counsel plainly that he is not cheating, that second marriages carry the weight of first marriages, and that honoring a dead spouse is healthy, sharing stories of blended families who planned weddings with remembrances of deceased spouses. The Secular answer is read and judged, and the hosts note keeping online memorial pages is common.
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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