Hold Fast to the Good: Fighting Against Our Age of Angst

Hold Fast to the Good: Fighting Against Our Age of Angst
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Jeff Minick
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When we become depressed or anxious, some of us look for help from therapists. Others try to improve their mental health through meditation or prayer, exercise, diet, and rest, or the company of family and friends.

But what do we do when it’s not just us who are undergoing these troubles? How do we cope when our entire culture seems ridden with hopelessness and melancholy, as does ours these days, when good news from the public square seems as rare as rain in a desert?

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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