I have two sisters who are causing big dilemmas in raising our 2-1/2-year-old daughter. One sister is living with her boyfriend and their new baby and doesn’t attend church. She consistently dresses very provocatively, when she comes to our house. The other sister is an angry atheist who swears and takes God’s name in vain
Let’s use our imaginations for a thought experiment. In 1946, a crew is airlifting the latest model Dodge from Detroit to a car dealership in Brisbane, Australia. On the final leg of its flight the airplane develops engine problems over Papua, New Guinea. The crew’s only hope is to shove the shiny new sedan out
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What response can I give my son when he states that he doesn’t believe in God? Roslyn Dear Roslyn, We imagine that this must be a painful question for you to ask. You didn’t specify whether this is an adult son or a younger child, and the answer is different when you are dealing with
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We, along with many of our Happy Warriors and friends are getting ready for the holiday of Chanuka. Many other of our Happy Warriors and friends are preparing to celebrate Christmas. Each holiday is an expression of deeply held religious beliefs and a beautiful expression of those beliefs. Diminishing Chanuka and Christmas by turning them
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Hello Rabbi Lapin and Mrs. Susan Lapin, I’ve been an avid listener of your podcast and YouTube channel for over 2 years now ever since I heard you were mentioned by Dave Ramsey. I have to confess, I listen to you more now than Dave’s podcast since you deal more in life as a whole
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Though they say, “Numbers never lie,” it is a bit of a meaningless aphorism because liars often lie with numbers. But whether numbers lie or not, they always carry significance. It is impossible to assess the health of a business or of an automobile engine without numbers. It is also impossible to fully capture the
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If we were to draw a Venn diagram, how much overlap would there be between the readers of Viktor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning and Lindsay Gibson’s book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents? Which set of readers would be more likely to establish families of their own? Dr. Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, I have been following your teachings for years and am so thankful for the wisdom you have imparted and its impact on my life. A question that keeps popping up for me is how do you raise young ladies to be ambitious but not to put that ambition before the desire
Almost immediately after President Biden reneged on his promise and pardoned his son, Hunter, we saw variations of the following comments pop up. “He did the wrong thing, but as a parent I would have done the same,” or “Of course a father has to protect his child.” By contrast, I enjoy reading many fiction
Hello! I am a Christian Mechanical Engineering student who is considering marrying a girl my age (mid 20s) who’s in pre-med and wanting to go into some specialization of surgery. I have listened to your podcasts for years, and I finally have a question of my own, that I pray you would be willing to
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