The Anxiety Opportunity and Loss (with Curtis Chang)

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🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Curtis Chang, the regular host of the Good Faith podcast, takes a turn in the “guest seat” in this special episode in which Nancy French interviews him about his new book, The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry Is the Doorway to Your Best Self. Curtis, who has suffered from anxiety to the point of losing his job as a senior pastor, offers up hard-earned wisdom that could transform one’s view on parenting, relationships, and even politics. Curtis also talks about the way the church gets anxiety wrong, how Jesus dealt with anxious people, and how grieving is a necessary component of effectively walking through loss.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. Good Faith is a production of redeeming Babel and
0:20.7	it's for friends who follow Jesus, help each other make sense of the world. I am Nancy
0:25.1	French, filling in today as host because my guest is someone whom you may know. He is Curtis
0:33.0	Chang, who is a consulting professor at Duke Divinity, a senior fellow at Fuller Theological
0:39.2	Seminary, a former pastor, lives in San Jose and also is the typical host of the Good Faith
0:45.0	Podcast. And I'm interviewing him today. He's letting me take over the reins as host because
0:50.6	he's got a new book out. And it might be slightly awkward to interview oneself. His new
0:56.0	book is called The Anxiety Opportunity. How worry is the doorway to your best self came
1:01.5	out this week. Congratulations Curtis. Thank you. What listeners don't realize is that
1:06.2	actually Nancy and her henchmen have broken into the redeeming Babel headquarters. And
1:12.4	I am now bound and gagged. And she has actually like a pirate taken over redeeming Babel.
1:18.0	And I tried to hide, decided to stay and make a stand. And so here we are.
1:23.2	Well, welcome to the Good Faith Podcast, Curtis. I'm very glad to have you as my guest.
1:29.1	So let's talk about the NBA playoffs. This actually. No, no, no, no. That's not what
1:35.2	the topic was. That is a very. It relates. It relates Curtis. And you know why. So Curtis
1:40.0	is a huge warrior span. I am a huge Lakers fan. And one of the benefits of friendships
1:46.9	is trash talking via text when the games are on. So one night during a game, I texted
1:53.2	Curtis. It may or may not have been one of the games that we were winning. And Curtis is like,
1:58.3	yeah, there were four of them. So you had your, your options there to choose from.
2:02.3	I do recall that. And so I wanted to enjoy it. But Curtis said, I don't want to talk about
2:07.0	the game. And I thought that was puzzling. And he told me something that caused me great
2:14.0	consternation. Curtis, can you please tell your listeners what you said to me about your philosophy
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