Why Are You Angry?

Last year, the BBC asked a question that many of us are still asking: “Why Are Americans So Angry?” According to a CNN/ORC poll from a year ago, “69 percent of Americans are either ‘very angry’ or ‘somewhat angry’ about ‘the way things are going’ in the US.” In a recent article for the Atlantic Monthly, Peter Beinart writes that the absence of faith in some people’s lives has arguably impacted their disposition toward those with whom they disagree. As people of faith, we have a name for this kind of excessive anger—sin—and we also have a script for how to respond to it. Christianity Today