When Franklin D. Roosevelt began his first inaugural address 92 years ago this month by asserting his "firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was rallying his countrymen ...

We recently got word that consumer confidence is plumbing new depths, and in fact the numbers have long been stuck at a level of despondency that usually signals the onset of a recession. The ...

On Sept. 5, hundreds of high schoolers rallied at the Indiana Statehouse to protest the spate of gun violence that is spreading fear throughout our country. These students came from Shortridge, Herron ...

Some 92 years ago in his first Inaugural Address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt called upon Americans to not give up and succumb to the darkness of the Depression when he famously said “the only thing we ...

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," said Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his First Inaugural Address. I'm sorry Mr. President, but I thoroughly disagree with this statement. Why should ...

When we let fear be our ruler, it twists our perceptions, narrows our vision, and turns us away from the love of God and neighbor. Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered perhaps his most famous line—“The ...

The further along we go with the weirdness (and not the fun kind) our nation has become, the more I'm convinced that it mostly comes down to the f-word: Fear. There's fear of the other in overdrive, ...

Fear is a universal experience. Whether it’s spiders, car washes, public speaking, or just the unknown, we all have something that gives us the chills. But Nothing to Fear Day on May 27 invites us to ...

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. Many fear that the United States is in a very serious crisis today.

When was the last time you did a bit of math? Perhaps, like this writer, when splitting a check with some friends at a restaurant you (admittedly lazily) simply throw your credit card onto the pile, ...