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The Fear Question: How Fear Has Become A Political Strategy
Jim Wallis

Editors note: This is part five of an eight-part series exploring
the eight Jesus questions all of us must face, highlighted in Jim
Wallis's new book Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to
Reclaim Jesus (HarperOne), available now. These next eight weeks
will help us go deeper than the headlines, to find our way back
to Jesus in the midst of this intensive and exhausting news
cycle. 

Want to hear this in an audio format instead? We just launched an
eight-episode podcast series called Reclaiming Jesus
Now that features Allison Trowbridge and William Matthews
speaking with Jim Wallis about these questions and their
relevance today.

It's hard to deny that we're living through a fearful time in
the United States and around the world. Political leaders are
weaponizing fear to maintain power, turn people against each
other, inspire discrimination, and even incite violence. Parents
of children of color are afraid every time their children leave
the house. I'll be in Los Angeles this week as I continue my
book tour for Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim
Jesus, and a large number of people in the Latinx community
there know and love someone who is undocumented. They live in
fear each day that ICE will tear their families apart. Climate
change poses an existential threat to civilization, and we see
more and more signs of that by the day. One of our events in
northern California this week had to be cancelled because of the
unprecedented power outages put in place to try and prevent
wildfires, which continue to increase in number and severity in
recent years. What does it take to confront and overcome such
omnipresent and often justifiable fears?

I love what Jesus says over and over again, "Be not afraid,"
eight times in the New Testament. When I was a little boy, we
were told the story of the disciples in the boat. They're on
the boat and the waves are rocking and rolling, and they're
scared. But then they see Jesus coming, walking on the water, and
he says to them, "It is I. Be not afraid." In other words,
"It's me. I know you're scared. It's ok. I'm here with
you." So, our Sunday School class was told: "When you're
scared, when you don't know what's going on, let Jesus into your
boat and everything will calm down." In 2nd Timothy, Paul makes
a related point: "For God has not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (1:7).

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