“Fear” Articles

Courtney Ellis’s careful observations of nature teach her, and us, to find peace during the hardest transitions.

We don’t watch exorcism movies as victims who should fear demons, but as victors who stand in the power of Jesus Christ.

To participate in politics in 2020 seems to be an exercise in fear, like the call from Dark in Ray Bardbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Chernobyl has acted as a reminder to me that social media hasn’t made people crazy, paranoid, or stupid—people have always been willing to spread misinformation, lies, and conspiracies when it suits an agenda like a political or religious ideology.

A good story doesn’t make you feel more afraid than you were before; a good story helps you see the best way to act in the midst of your anxious fear, providing you with hope.

HBO’s adaptation of The Outsider reminds us that we must learn to cope with fear and grief in order to be guides for those in the world who have no hope.

On the last night of October, we gather up plastic jack-o-lanterns, light up sneakers, and shuffled candy wrappers. We look straight into the façade of evil victories and declare that hell has no hold on us.

When we continue feeding our desire for easy answers, we lose the ability to approach complexity with the appropriate tools.

The desperation to prove oneself and the inability to own mistakes are common among Mirai Nagasu’s much-discussed (and often maligned) Millennial peers.

On Halloween, a holiday that celebrates superficial terrors, it’s easy to forget that deep-seated fears require both self-awareness and courage to confront.

Jack T. Chick’s tracts of fear were a fairly well known product that many churches and Christians used. Amanda Wortham joins Drew & Tyler to talk about her experience and what the tracts say.

Jack Chick’s tracts don’t challenge readers to love their neighbors, but instead, provide a refuge for those who want to bunker down in fear.

When you encounter a monster on Cloverfield Lane, you discover a hard truth about the connection between our personal fears and our instinct for self-preservation.

Trump’s rise to political prominence reveals the need for conservative evangelicals to offer a better, truer, more just vision of our country.

Matthew Linder examines the continuing cultural legacy of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and its themes of paranoia and fear.