Dear Zombie Preacher: Why are all the imaginary lions and gladiators so mean to me?

[jadelennox]

A key fact necessary to understand the face I am making. Billy Graham died in 2018.

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Dear Dr. Graham:

I became a Christian a few years ago and I thought my troubles would go away. Now that I have learned more from the Bible, I realize that being a Christian can add to our problems. During COVID-19 I have seen how the church has come under attack. Why is this?

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Moving Away or Staying Near Family

[beable]

Dear Care and Feeding,

My husband and I live in LA (where I grew up) in a small single-bedroom rented house. Our two young children sleep in our former dining room, and we have two dogs, too. After the harrowing fire season of 2020, we impulsively took a leap and bought (sight unseen) a 12-acre homestead with a three- (the luxury!!!) bedroom house in Maine, in an area I know and love from spending many magical childhood summers there. At the time it felt like an insurance policy against the climate risks of California in an imagined distant future, but as we’ve visited the homestead in the years since our hurried purchase, we’re more and more inclined to move to Maine full time, ideally in the next few years (before our older child starts elementary school).

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