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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: Anxious? These Spiritual Insights Will Help with Author Sara Billups
Description: It’s a bit of a cliché to say that we live in uncertain times. Just look at the headlines. Relationships — from the global to the intimate — are fraying. We swim in waters full of fear and worry, contempt and disdain. Anxiety abounds.
That’s why today’s guest — writer and cultural commentator, Sara Billups — has written a new book. It’s called “Nervous Systems: Spiritual Practices to Calm Anxiety in Your Body, the Church and Politics.” It’s out now and — spoiler alert — Billups writes quite a bit about Ignatian spirituality.
She looks to Ignatius’ all-important idea of holy indifference as a way of appr...