Faith’s Role in Navigating Crisis

Michael Wear
Office of Citizen
Published in
5 min readJun 2, 2022

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In the testimonies of those who have been through a severe crisis, there is often the observation that one’s senses were heightened. What is extraneous to the crisis, even if it generally creates a lot of noise and gets a lot of attention, becomes invisible, and the senses focus on what is most relevant to addressing the crisis at hand. What seemed superfluous before might then become essential; the very thing that is needed to…

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Michael Wear
Office of Citizen

President/CEO, The Center for Christianity & Public Life. Author, Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America