The Mindfulness of Anxiety

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At the heart of anxiety is the fear of a future loss. Jesus tries to get his listeners, who are anxious about some future loss, to come back to the present. One of our first spiritual responses to anxiety for ourselves and for the people we lead,. is to call them not to be the future, but to the present because that's what anxiety is.

One cannot make sense of the deformation of the current conservative movement without understanding immigration. And one cannot grasp the nature of immigration without understanding anxiety. Like most political issues today, the topic of immigration is bathed in anxiety - for everyone on all sides. Curtis draws these connections, with the ultimate aim to show that Christians can uniquely contribute to the conversation about immigration because we have uniquely good news about anxiety. This episode draws from Curtis’ talk at a convening of the National Immigration Forum in Ohio that included local pastors and civic leaders.

January 6 Was Practice, The Atlantic, January 2022 by Barton Gellman

Pew Research Center on Immigration and Politics

Immigration and far-right voting : New evidence (from Europe) from the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)