Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear: Choosing Trust over Safety in an Anxious Age Biblical Characters Read by more than 12

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Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear: Choosing Trust over Safety in an Anxious Age Biblical Characters Read by more than 12Fear has taken on an outsized role in our current cultural and political context. Manufactured threats are advanced with little to no evidence of danger, while real threats are exaggerated for self interested gain. This steady diet of fear produces unhealthy moral lives, leading many Christians to focus more on the dangers we wish to avoid than the goods we wish to pursue. As a fearful people, we are tempted to make safety our highest good and to make