Fear defined as false evidence appearing real is the sort of line that normally ends a discussion, and Anthony Cascio uses it to open one, listing what people are actually frightened of: the economy, unemployment, their health, their own money, and other people.
His faith writing is direct and unembarrassed, and it comes from a particular tradition that he names rather than implies.
He writes about a young television actor who told an interviewer to stop watching the show that made him famous, and he treats it as the story of somebody reading his way into a change rather than as celebrity gossip, which is the more interesting reading of it.
There is a piece on email arguing about how to avoid the delete key, and a political post on firearms and where regulation leads that states its position without hedging.
His post on greatness reaches for jazz musicians as the model.
Read the greatness post and the one on fear together. They are halves of the same argument.