Josh Hunt's Blog, page 142
March 16, 2020
March 15, 2020
Fear and risk
So much of what we think and do about risk does not make sense. In a 1990 paper, researchers George Loewenstein and Jane Mather compared people’s levels of concern about nine risks—including AIDS, crime, and teen suicide—with objective measures of those risks. The results can only be described as scrambled. In some cases, concern rose […]
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Justice Is Right Relationships
We must have a strong concern for the poor, but there is more to the Biblical idea of justice than that. We get more insight when we consider a second Hebrew word that can be translated as “being just,” though it is usually translated as “being righteous.” The word is tzadeqah, and it refers to […]
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The high cost of fear
We fear being sued, finishing last, going broke; we fear the mole on the back, the new kid on the block, the sound of the clock as it ticks us closer to the grave. We sophisticate investment plans, create elaborate security systems, and legislate stronger military, yet we depend on mood-altering drugs more than any […]
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March 14, 2020
Is our fear rational?
Risk and fear are hot topics among sociologists, who have come to a broad consensus that those of us living in modern countries worry more than previous generations. Some say we live in a culture of fear. Terrorists, Internet stalkers, crystal meth, avian flu, genetically modified organisms, contaminated food: New threats seem to sprout like […]
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Have you ever been in totally over your head?
Have you ever been in totally over your head? I have. I had been invited to testify in front of a congressional subcommittee. If you’ve ever been flipping the channels and found yourself watching a riveting live feed on C-SPAN, you can probably picture the heavily paneled room, the bank of microphones, the senators all […]
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Living Fearlessly
You would have liked my brother. Everyone did. Dee made friends the way bakers make bread: daily, easily, warmly. Handshake—big and eager; laughter—contagious and volcanic. He permitted no stranger to remain one for long. I, the shy younger brother, relied on him to make introductions for us both. When a family moved onto the street […]
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March 13, 2020
FDR on Fear
Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew a thing or two about fear. When FDR raised his hand to take the oath that would make him the thirty-second president of the United States, fear had settled like a thick gray fog across Washington. It was the very bottom of the Great Depression. Banks were falling like dominoes, and […]
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Paul’s Gospel
Returning to the prescript, Paul states that the gospel is something that God “promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures” (v. 2). In other words, this new announcement is prepromised in the ancient faith of Israel. Paul shows the conformity of his gospel to Israel’s prophetic hopes. This is similar to 1 Corinthians […]
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