Always Look On the Bright Side: American Christianity’s Toxic Positivity Problem

In which an entire culture struggles with what to do when things go really, really bad.

Michael A Gold
8 min readMar 21, 2022

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I had an interesting conversation just before staff meeting a couple of weeks ago with one of my co-workers. We were talking about the way the pandemic has cycled, and I made a…

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Michael A Gold

Michael writes about history, religion, and the Bible. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and Netflix account.