Is It a Sin to Be Anxious during COVID-19?
Martin Luther said famously: “Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair”[1]. Apparently, the quotation originally referred to the lusts of the flesh, but it could equally apply to the matter of anxiety. Anxiety, on one level, is simply a physiological response to changes in one’s natural environment. It is part of the “fight or flight” mechanism that prepares us to respond to threats to our survival and has no moral quality in and of itself in...
