Tag: fear

A reflection on Star Trek, gender identity, neurodiversity and faith explores whether fear of change prevents growth, understanding and evolution.

A personal reflection on a near-death experience, exploring how love, faith and Scripture bring comfort in life’s most fragile moments.

A reflection on utopia, fear, human differences, belief, empathy, and why acceptance—not perfection—is the path toward harmony in a divided world.

This letter comes almost three months into Israel’s war on Gaza. Many credible voices (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations — to name a few) claim this war to be a war of ethnic cleansing.

Higgins said it’s through recognizing fear and using stories to tell ourselves and others about how those fears impact us that helps us deal with fear. Rather than leading to fighting, running or paralysis, it can positively motivate us in a new direction.

If giving up is not the answer, then perhaps it is to live this one and only life as never before. Choosing life is to accept all of life. With acceptance comes the release of one's imperfect self-reflected in the Creator’s image to the crucified and risen one.

Just as you regress after watching a horror movie, to becoming suddenly afraid of the dark and startle with every sound, we spread fear to one another like germs.