The World Health Organization (2025) reports that one in five people (22%) who have experienced war or conflict in the previous 10 years has depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. Pastors are experiencing a great amount of stress and exhaustion, and some of them are even leaving the ministry. Pastoral identity is …
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Living With Anxiety: Three Practices for Today
How do you handle your anxiety? Faith lets us look beyond our circumstances and fix our eyes on Christ. In this article I want to answer a question many people bring to me: is there a cure for anxiety? Why I don’t promise to make anxiety disappear When I sit with people who struggle with …
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Anxiety: When Worry Is a Messenger and When to Ask for Help
One morning, so the story goes, Death was walking toward a city. A man asked what he was going to do. “I am going to take 100 people,” Death replied. The man hurried to warn everyone he could. That evening they met again. “You said 100,” the man said. “Why did 1,000 die?” Death answered, …
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