Living Free in an Anxious World: What Your Doctor and Pastor Want You to Know About Worry

Dr. R. Lanny Hunter and Pastor Victor L. Hunter offer a thoughtful and practical guide to understanding anxiety through the eyes of both medicine and faith, so that all of us who struggle with these issues can choose life over worry.

What is anxiety? Why do our bodies and spirits respond to stress by growing unsettled, even sick? When is worry a good thing, and how can we use it more constructively? In Living Free in an Anxious World, Dr. R. Lanny Hunter and Pastor Victor L. Hunter draw on their respective professions as physician and minister, as well as their academic expertise in science and theology, to offer a holistic approach to addressing worry and anxiety.

Throughout, the authors offer insights, education, and encouragement to readers facing the dangers and challenges of being human, believing that the road of freedom through the landscape of anxiety opens only to those who find the courage in an anxious age to seize the moment, take the initial steps, say Thank God, and keep putting one foot in front of the other.

R. Lanny Hunter studied psychiatry prior to specializing in dermatology for thirty-five years and has devoted much of his own time to researching the medical dimensions of mental health in an effort to better serve hurting people around him. He has served on boards of directors and in advisory roles for many organizations, including United Way, the Health Advisory Committee of Northern Arizona University, and the Flagstaff Hospice Program.

Victor L. Hunter earned his master of divinity at Union Theological Seminary, specializing in religion and psychiatry, and his doctor of ministry at Phillips Graduate Seminary. He has served as the dean of the Theological Education Institute in Denver, CO, and has taught at Phillips Theological Seminary as adjunct faculty since 1996. He recently retired from working at Evergreen Christian Church in Evergreen, CO, where he had been the pastor since 1985.