Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear

This is an excellent treatment of how governments, candidates, companies can use fear of things that are very unlikely to occur to further their purposes. Bader-Sayes treatise shows how to evaluate fear and put it in its proper place in the scheme of the Christian Life.

In this short but spot-on book, Scott Bader-Saye examines modern and postmodern culture and the prevalence of fear based thinking and media content within it as well as the effect this thread of our cultural fabric (which has become significantly more dominant in the years following the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks) has on Christian morals, ethics and, most importantly, practice. By examining our culture's present emphasis in all areas of life on "safety" as being the most important thing we can all agree on (in a sense, our culture's present metanarrative) Bader-Saye discusses three cultural practices that have arisen due ot this emphasis: suspicion, preemption and accumulation.

Everything in our culture, from T.V.