Pastors, Is It Possible to Be Overtaken and Stupefied by the Tragedies of the World?

Pastor Paul says the news can be overwhelming and distracts us from what is really important. He points out that even if stories are close to home, there's often little we can do about them. News also traffics in ephemeral information which habituates our souls to trivia, he writes. But most of it will prove ephemeral and trivial as time goes on, pastors say.