Kindness
12 conversations where the hosts get into kindness.
12 conversations
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Dear LFTP: friends who want online reviews of a dishonest book and a bad CD
- How do I handle friends' requests for online reviews of a dishonest book and a bad CD?
A listener is asked to review a friend's divorce book that gossips untruthfully about her ex (hiding that she committed the adultery) and a friend's music CD she can't enjoy.
From No. 468 · Turned Over Not Over
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Dear LFTP: Hank and the boundaries of a kindness
- Does offering a friend rides obligate you to unlimited extra stops, and how do you set limits without ruining the friendship?
A listener writes about Hank, a friend of 35 years whose vehicle was totaled three months ago: they drive him grocery shopping and he keeps adding unasked-for stops, turning quick trips into marathon excursions, and their patience is wearing thin.
From No. 389 · Impeachment and the Pat Brigade
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Dear LFTP: workplace greeting etiquette
- Who should greet whom first when a coworker arrives at the workplace?
The hosts take a listener question on who should greet whom first when a coworker arrives at work. They debate "the interrupter acknowledges" theory vs. simply being normal and…
From No. 294 · The Permanent ESV
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Dear LFTP: the gym 'that's disgusting' incident
- Should Luke apologize to the sweating gym man after loudly saying 'that's disgusting'?
A host reads a letter: at the gym, the writer's boyfriend Luke loudly said 'that's disgusting' about a profusely sweating man on a treadmill; Luke feels awful and wants to apologize, but fears explaining if the man didn't hear.
From No. 229 · Unbiblical Statements
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Dear LFTP: the unwanted monologue on public transit
- How do I politely tell a stranger on public transit that I would rather be left alone?
A listener writes that commuters trap him in forty-five-minute monologues despite his earbuds and book, asking how to politely signal he wants to be left alone.
From No. 200 · Silversyde
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Do the surveys change anything?
- Does knowing where Bible skeptics stand change how you share the gospel?
Asked how three weeks of survey reading has changed anything, a host says probably nothing changes except knowing Jesus, loving people, and being in real relationships.
From No. 320 · The Skeptical Bible Survey
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Neighbor kindness stories and their backfire
Two neighbor stories anchor the segment: one host mowed his absent neighbor's front lawn before three days of rain, then got confronted by the neighbor's four-year-old asking who mowed their lawn - and later admitted he had also run over a toy with the riding mower.
From No. 24 · Sittin' In Your Own Pew (And Doin' Nothing Else)
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Cartoonish people: go serve at the food bank
Dan observes that both sides form cartoonish pictures of each other from spokespeople and bullet points, and the church has lost face-to-face human contact.
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1 Corinthians 13 — how you do it matters more than what you do
Ben (speaker-1) walks through 1 Corinthians 13, which he taught at home during a week his house church didn't gather: Paul's point that knowledge without love is nothing cuts Ben…
From No. 544 · Wisdom and Wonder
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Russian coworker, a January kayak rescue, and the pope in Bondurant
Impression talk drifts into a coworker's stories of working with Russians and kayaking near Chernobyl.
From No. 424 · When Culture Lacks Objective Reality
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Virtue 1: niceness versus kindness
The hosts begin Frank Powell's Relevant Magazine article, 'eight Christian virtues that aren't really Christian,' with the first virtue: niceness.
From No. 310 · Niceness vs. Kindness
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Pope-style advice: relationship with God runs through other people
A host's Pope-style advice: ninety percent of problems with your relationship with God are tied up in how you treat other people.
From No. 193 · Stress and Forgiveness