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July 22, 2026

Living & Loving in the Tension of Faith

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As the dog Peabody told the boy Sherman in “Peabody’s Improbable History” on TV’s “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends” in the late 1950s and 1960s, “Every dog should have a boy.”

Tibby had me.

Tibby was a beagle. He wasn’t my dog. He belonged to my parents’ best friends, Dot and Bob Virag, who lived in Lake Success, New York, on Long Island. We lived in Hackensack, New Jersey, about an hour’s drive from Dot and Bob’s home.

We lived in the upper story of a two-story home. We rented from the landlords, who lived below. No pets allowed.

The Virags had a spacious home in a lovely neighborhood with big houses, big lawns, and no sidewalks. It was like going to the country....



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