Rebecca DeYoung — What To Do When We’re Angry

On episode 299 of Life With God (recorded live at the RēGathering conference), professor and author Rebecca DeYoung talks with Nathan about what to do when we feel angry. 

Show Notes

Resources by Rebecca DeYoung

• Article: “How to Practice Hope”
• Essay: “Why Are You Angry?”
• Talk: “The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath”
• Scholarly publications: Available online here 

Other related resources recommended by Rebecca

• “Praying in the Dark” by J. Todd Billings—on lament, protest, and compassionate witness as ways to express our emotions without spiraling into despair. 
• Listen to an interview with Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet (a Christian psychologist and friend of Rebecca DeYoung) on moving forward in forgiveness. 
• ​​Aquinas on the vice of wrath
• Garret Keizer, The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin 
• Josef Pieper, "The Power of Wrath" in The Four Cardinal Virtues (Notre Dame Press), 193-197. 
• Robert C. Roberts, "Peace" in Spiritual emotions: a psychology of Christian virtues (Eerdmans),  165-178.