Anxiety Opportunity: A Different Way to Construct It

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Dr. Tracy Dennis Tuare is one of the nation's leading researchers on anxiety. She believes that we mental health professionals have made a terrible mistake. We've convinced people that anxiety is a dangerous affliction and that the solution is to eliminate it as we do with other diseases, she says. But feeling anxious isn't the problem: The problem is that we don't understand how to respond constructively to anxiety.

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)