Anxiety, Identity, and Reality

Extra Credit Podcast · Jul 9, 2026 · 1h 4m

The Will of God Ep. 6.

This week we try to think through the reasons for the anxiety that seems constituent of modern life and seeking to do the will of God.

Here is the passage from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics that we finished with:

All that we have said thus far implies that we have abandoned the abstract notion, largely dominant in ethical thought, of an isolated individual who has available an absolute criterion by which to choose continually and exclusively between a clearly recognized good and a clearly recognized evil. Such an isolated individual does not exist…The error of such an…