“He said to his disciples, ‘Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?’” Mark 4:40   The phone call arrived right in the middle of a mundane afternoon. It was the kind of news that stops time, the kind that makes the walls of a kitchen feel like they are closing in. A dream had just fallen through, or perhaps a difficult diagnosis had arrived in an envelope. In those first few seconds, the heart begins to race, and the mind starts scanning for an escape hatch. The instinct is n...