"Nervous Systems: Spiritual Practices to Calm Anxiety in Your Body, the Church, and Politics" By Sara Billups, Baker Books, 225 pages

Sara Billups, a Seattle-based writer and cultural commentator, presents a candid look at anxiety of the individual, anxiety of the Christian church and anxiety of politics in her second book, "Nervous Systems: Spiritual Practices to Calm Anxiety in Your Body, the Church, and Politics," which will be released Nov. 4.

Billups, who earned a Doctor of Ministry in the sacred art of writing at the Peterson Center for the Christian Imagination at Western Theological Seminary, is honest about struggling with her own generalized anxiety disorder throughout the text.

The first third of "Nervous Systems" includes memoir-style writing as Billups describes her anxiety

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