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Dear June: Facing Family Strife With Calm Focus on forgiveness first I’m a conservative in a family of liberals/leftists, all of whom have gone along willingly with their party’s slide into authoritarianism justified by Trump (and conservative) hatred. I used to be an even more rabid leftist in my youth, but marrying a Russian Orthodox wife and joining her community here in San Francisco, and now having embraced faith with the help of Dennis Prager and Jordan Peterson, I’ve become a conservative. I try not to discuss politics with my family, but as they say, politics is downstream from...

Dear June: Seeking Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccines My work wants to make it mandatory as fast as legally possible. Concerned Hospital Worker Dear Concerned Hospital Worker, I think that understanding how some traditional ideas—moral principles and beliefs—apply to the issue of vaccine mandates will help us to bridge the gap between both sides of this very polarizing issue. The following is my best attempt to present a line of thought that I hope will help to guide your quest for understanding. Ancient Understanding of Disease For most of human history, a belief in divine forces guided the t...

Dear June: Dinner Conversation Topics—Does Anything Go? Dear June, Is there such a thing as appropriate topics to only converse about in mixed company anymore? Or does anything go? My husband and I have a 12-year-old daughter that we homeschool. On a regular basis, we open our home for dinner to get to know the other families from the co-op better. Two months ago, we had a family over for dinner. After the husband talked about overcoming an illness, the outgoing mother shared of her experiences of her water breaking during each of her three children’s births. The kids’ ages ranged from ...