The second chapter, titled Fear and the Moral Life, starts with the question: what does fear do to us? The answer to this question has its beginnings in the moral nature of fear as fear is a basic emotion which isn’t morally neutral (this is not to say fear is bad, but that it, like all other strong emotions has a moral edge to it). A culture of fear plays off of these emotions in a rather morally dubious way. Rather than putting fear into its appropriate …

After doing some freelance work this morning, I stopped by Mardel’s to see if there were any sales happening. There really weren’t any but there was a book that caught my eye: Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear by Scot Bader-Saye. As I said, the title struck me so I picked it up to take a look at the back. The description read much as I expected it would after seeing the title. There were a couple of things though that immediately grabbed me: it …