In his first inaugural address on March of 1933, with the nation staring into the abyss of the Great Depression, FDR famously said: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is ...
Fear can be a creepy subject to write about. But today, I write about it to normalize it and to call it out.
Every October, we line up for haunted houses, tune in to horror films, watch reruns of “The Dead Files,” and tell ghost stories that make the hairs on our necks stand up. It’s a paradox — why do we ...
In my very first Kids & Culture Alert! newsletter published in April of 2005, I discussed the sad epidemic of fear of failure that was rampant in America then. Well, more than five years later, fear ...
When we let fear be our ruler, it twists our perceptions, narrows our vision, and turns us away from the love of God and neighbor. Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered perhaps his most famous line—“The ...