Peggy's Answer

Everybody likes to get the most "bang" for their buck.

And pretty much everyone I know trusts Consumer Reports, a magazine and website dedicated to fair reporting and evaluation of, well, pretty much everything. They receive absolutely no ad revenue from anyone, so they can remain completely fair and impartial.

Check out this report to get the skinny on eleven common, everyday products you see on your grocer's shelves that Consumer Reports thinks are just "great."

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Christian author and speaker Tony Campolo tells a story from the days when his wife, Peggy, was at home full-time with their children.

When someone would ask, "And what is it that you do, dear?" Peggy would reply, "I am socializing two homo sapiens into the dominant values of the Judeo-Christian tradition in order that they might be instruments for the transformation of the social order into the kind of eschatological utopia that God willed from the beginning of creation."

Then Peggy would ask the other person, "And what do you do?"

[from the book, "An Ordinary Day with Jesus" with thanks to the Church Laughs Newsletter]

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WONDER for YOUR WEEK: Why will a child eat everything the sample lady at the store passes out but not touch it on their plate at home? Is it the toothpicks?

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