Politics right now at a very challenging point.

The anxiety is escalating.

There's more uncertainty, it's more fear.

What's also true, God's kingdom is in amazing hands.

The state of the kingdom is well.

It's thriving. Welcome.

Welcome to the Good Faith podcast where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world.

I'm Good Faith's director of content and the producer of this podcast, D.T. Slothman,

Curtis Chang is off this week. Here at Good Faith as we try to make sense of the world, for those of us who live in the United States,

there's a lot to wrestle with right now.

We've spent time recently focusing on how American evangelicals are broadly becoming less sympathetic to others and marrying the attitudes of those in political power.

We've talked about how religious relief work is being gutted in the name of budget cuts,

and how the government is enacting policies that can truly hurt the least of these at home and abroad,

calling into question how a follower of Jesus can live both faithfully and compassionately in the midst of the upheaval.

In all of this, one thing has become abundantly

clear. Much of what we're encountering in the United States right now is causing a disproportionate

amount of collective anxiety. The late Frederick Beakner offered a few questions about anxiety in his

book Whistling in the Dark. He's one of my

favorites. He wrote this. Is anxiety a disease or an addiction? Perhaps it's something of both.

Partly perhaps because you can't help it. And partly because for some dark reason, you choose

not to help it. You torment yourself with

detailed visions of the worst that can possibly happen. Does the terrible fear of disaster conceal

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