Episode Details

Fear controls us when we let it decide for us, but Jesus keeps repeating a better command: do not be afraid. We talk through anxiety, attachment, and freedom, and we learn how trusting the Father’s providence reorders everything. 
• fear as the currency of control in regimes and in everyday life 
• common modern fears: money, health, marriage, status, approval, rejection 
• how our greatest fear reveals our deepest attachment and priority 
• “rightly ordered” loves and living in the world without being owned by it 
• Aquinas on servile fear versus filial fear and why the difference matters 
• how filial fear creates freedom: refusing self-censorship and compromised conscience 
• why anxiety often comes from trying to control outcomes that belong to God 
• divine providence in the sparrow passage and being known down to every hair 
• social media pressure, fear of missing out, and fear of not measuring up 
• prayer questions to name what grips our heart and surrender it to God 

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