The Hidden Minds

The Framework

Fear

Courage / Fear

Doing the right thing under threat, against letting the fear of harm decide.

Every profile lands somewhere between courage and fear. Use this page to see which figures are pulled most strongly toward each pole, then follow the links down into the stories themselves.

Most toward Courage

  1. 01DanielUnshaken before kings and lions; undone only by what he was shown.
  2. 02PaulThe zealot's violence was never spent. It was only turned around.
  3. 03JonathanThe crown prince who handed his own succession to the man who would take it.
  4. 04RahabA foreign harlot who staked her whole house on a God she had only heard rumors of.
  5. 05HannahShe wanted the child more than anything, then gave him back.
  6. 06DavidAnointed and adored, which is how a rooftop became his undoing.

Most toward Fear

  1. 01PharaohEach refusal hardened the next, until the "no" became his fate.
  2. 02SaulA king who could not bear that anyone might rule better.
  3. 03HamanRage at one man who would not bow, scaled up into a plan to erase a people.
  4. 04PilateHe washed his hands of the verdict he had the power to stop.
  5. 05JudasPeter's failure, with one door he could not imagine opening.
  6. 06AbsalomA wound his father never answered, turned into a throne and a knife.

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