What would Aunty Pam do?

Published 12:36 pm Monday, August 4, 2025

Dear Aunty Pam,

I hope you can give me some advice because I’m so shocked, I don’t know what to think.

I live on the same street as my pastor, and he just came back from vacation. While he was gone, he asked me if I wouldn’t mind getting his mail for him and leaving it on a table on his screened-in porch. I told him I was happy to do it. Well, on the second day, I went to his mailbox, and there was a catalog from Frederick’s of Hollywood! I wasn’t sure what it was, but judging from the cover, it was pretty racy stuff. I couldn’t believe my eyes, the lingerie was so trashy and sleazy. I thought about throwing it out, but I put it on the bottom of the pile of mail and didn’t say anything.

Our pastor isn’t married, and he’s about 35. No kids either. I always thought maybe he decided to live for the Lord, or has never met the right woman, but after seeing that catalog, I can’t help but wonder if he has some sort of sexual fetish, or has sleazy taste in slutty women. I couldn’t even go to church last Sunday because it just feels too awkward to see him. I’m even wondering about talking to our deacon about it. What do you think?

Signed,

Shocked

Dear Shocked,

Holy cow, remind me to never ask you to collect my mail, because I’m a vegetarian and yet still get a Hickory Farms catalog every Christmas, trying to sell me gift baskets loaded with salami.

So, based on one risqué catalog, you’ve decided your pastor is a sexual deviant and feel the need to publicly humiliate and ruin him by discussing this with another member of the church. You’ve not just leapt to conclusions, you’ve pole vaulted over them.

WWJD? Very possibly tell you to look at your pastor with love and continue to support him and your faith family with kindness and respect.

WWAPD? Tell you to mind your own beeswax and stifle the urge to gossip.

Cheers, dears!!

Aunty Pam