Christian counselor Brad Hambrick talks about how we deal with our own fury in heated times. All anger says two things: “This is wrong, and it matters.” In the interpersonal space, sinful anger says a ...
For much of my life, I viewed anger as an emotion that held a negative stigma. Growing up, I was taught that raising my voice meant losing my audience, and displaying anger signaled a loss of control.
Today’s Gospel reading features a Jesus we don’t always see: fiery, fed-up Jesus. This denunciation of the Pharisees and scholars of the law for their hypocrisy is often coupled with the passage from ...
If we start with a Biblical and New Testament perspective, it’s hard to support the concept of righteous anger. To wit: “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to ...
Why more believers need the courage to get angry at sin. As a young woman, Sarah Sumner never allowed herself to be angry, until her parents divorced when she was 22. The experience was one ...
As noted in the first post in this series on the emotions, Robert Trivers (1971) identified moralistic aggression, a.k.a. righteous anger, as one of the human adaptations that once helped to “regulate ...
As I write this article, I am filled with anger. A disabled boy I know from Christian camp was recently portrayed in a compromising pose on the website of a popular Boston sports entertainment website ...
As noted in the first post in this series on the emotions, Robert Trivers (1971) identified moralistic aggression, a.k.a. righteous anger, as one of the human adaptations that once helped to “regulate ...