Faith, not fear
Do you have loved ones whose eternal destiny you worry about? Listen up… PICTURE: Alex Shute/Unsplash The Bible isn’t a fan of fear. “Perfect love casts out fear” it says. So, when we witness to loved ones out of fear, it comes from the wrong place. I understand your feelings, but fear taints our witness. It […]
This Life: Confronting fear
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on the New Testament account of a woman forced to face her fears – and her own experience doing so…
Shame
There’s something most of us fear more than death. Something we avoid at all costs. Something that makes our very souls shake: Shame. PICTURE: K Mitch Hodge/Unsplash Shame induces trauma in us. Those dark places we don’t want anyone to know about. Failure, divorce, abuse, addiction. How can we show our face again? How can […]
Sight-Seeing: In Advent, we hope and wait. Climate change doesn’t lend itself to either
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE – in an article first published on Religion News Service – writes that Advent is supposed to be a time of anticipation and hope, but the threat of global warming brings me anxiety and fear…
Cave of wonders
Joseph Campbell became quite famous for his analysis of the hero’s journey and its influence on films like Star Wars and The Lion King. PICTURE: Samuel Roy/Unsplash One of the ideas he suggests is part of our shared humanity is this: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” What a profound […]
This Life: Will you say ‘Yes’ to the Lord?
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, writes about what it means to take a leap of faith (and overcome the fear of doing so)…
Sight-Seeing: Fear won’t win the coronavirus fight
In an article first published by Religion News Service, RICK MCDANIEL, founder and senior pastor of Richmond Community Church in Virginia and the author of ‘You Got Style’, explains why we must fight fear during the COVID-19 pandemic…
Essay: Fearing courageously in the face of COVID-19
In an article first published on Religion News Service, WARREN KINGDOM, a psychiatrist and theologian at Duke University and co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School, writes about the idea of “healthy fear” and its relationship to love…
Essay: How we respond to coronavirus outbreaks may depend on what we want from religion
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JAMIE D ATEN, founder and executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, looks at what research shows about the role of religion in reactions to crises like the Ebola outbreak or Syrian refugee crisis…
THIS LIFE: DON’T LET FEAR DOMINATE
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published by ASSIST News Service, looks at why prayer is the answer when we’re facinhg “life’s storms”…