Anxiety
How are you? It seems with pandemics, global climate, political divisions, and social media we are living in the era of anxiety. Anxious? PICTURE: Joice Kelly/Unsplash By most measures we are living at perhaps the best time in history. Yet the uncertainty that is amplified through global media sure does pull the rug from under […]
Books: A meditation into how Psalm 131 speaks to an anxious world
DAVID ADAMS reads an insightful look at the issue of anxiety through a Biblical lens…
Health Insight: Languishing – what to do if you’re feeling restless, apathetic or empty
JOLANTA BURKE, a senior lecturer at the Centre for Positive Psychology and Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, writes – in an article first published on The Conversation – about what to do if you’ve been “languishing”…
Australian teenagers suffering COVID-19-related anxiety and trauma, says Mission Australia report
Sydney, Australia Teenagers across Australia are suffering from increased anxiety about their education, experience of isolation, mental health and future prospects due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Mission Australia report on youth says. The Young Voices of the Pandemic: Youth Survey COVID Report 2020, released on Wednesday, shows amongst those reporting personal concerns, 58.7 […]
Essay: Anxious Australia – a sign of what is absent
TIM COSTELLO reflects on the growing issue of anxiety in Australia, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic – and why it might be worse than in previous pandemics…
Essay: Hunger, lost income and increased anxiety – how coronavirus lockdowns put huge pressure on young people around the world
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK academics MARTA FAVARA, ALAN SÁNCHEZ, CATHERINE PORTER and DOUGLAS SCOTT report on the findings of a poll of 10,000 young people…
Helpdesk: Anxious about speaking in online classes and meetings? Here are seven tips to make it easier
In an article first published on The Conversation, LESLEY IRVINE, of Queensland University of Technology, gives some tips for speaking online…
THIS LIFE: ANXIOUS THOUGHTS DON’T HAVE TO WEIGH YOU DOWN
In the midst of heightened anxiety around the world due to the coronavirus outbreak, US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at what the Bible says about finding comfort in God…
“THE CONNECTED GENERATION”: FOR ANXIOUS YOUNG ADULTS, RELIGION CAN BE A WELLNESS TOOL, SAYS STUDY
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, explores the preliminary findings of a new global study of young people’s attitudes while Sight’s DAVID ADAMS speaks to World Vision Australia’s Jill Roche about some of the early results…
THE INTERVIEW: DAVID ZAHL, AUTHOR OF ‘SECULOSITY’
AYSHA KHAN, of Religion News Service, speaks to David Zahl, author of ‘Seculosity’, about how he believes, in contrast to the view that US society is becoming more secular, it’s actually becoming more religious about more things…