WHERE IS YOUR FEAR?

How do we think about trauma? Abuse? PTSD? Where have the terms been overused, underused, misused? Our podcast guest, pastor and licensed counselor Michael Coggin, returns in this article to bring clarity to psychological terms co-opted by contemporary culture and provide tools for understanding today's news on mental health.

As we read the news, we glimpse the varied worldviews in operation through the headline-inspiring friction between them. How do we deepen our understanding of worldview? And what does it mean for our redemptive action in the world?

It's advent: A season for contemplating the Person that changed everything, making Christianity distinct among the monotheistic worldviews. What makes Jesus "a stumbling block" to the other "People of the Book"?

Worldview is the story a person or community tells in order to make sense of the world. At our time in history, a plethora of these stories exist. Understanding worldview has become vital even as we wrestle with today’s news.