David LaMotte is a songwriter, speaker, author, and peace activist from western North Carolina. In his recent piece at Duke Divinity School’s Faith & Leadership blog, he explains what it means to “wait with deep hope” in the wake of […]
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Jürgen Moltmann: RIP
I missed this story when I was on the road during the last couple of days. I have learned much from Moltmann’s theology of hope. Here is the end of a 2018 piece on evangelicals and Trump that I wrote […]
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”: A short history
Over at Black Perspectives, historian Nico Slate reflects on the history of this famous phrase with a short analysis that spans from Theodore Parker to Martin Luther King Jr. to Barack Obama and beyond. Here is a taste of his […]
NT Wright on the difference between “hope” and “optimism”
Back when Barack Obama was running as the candidate of “hope and change” he was really running as the candidate of “optimism.” Here New Testament scholar NT Wright:
Gerson: Christmas should remind us that God is a God of hope who “offers a different kind of security than the fulfillment of our deepest wishes”
The Washington Post columnist is battling cancer, but he will not despair. Here is a taste of Michael Gerson‘s Christmas column: …from a young age, if we are lucky, we are taught that hope itself sustains. It is one of […]
People of hope
White Christians must learn about hope from the African-American experience. Today, on the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, University of Pennsylvania historian Anthea Butler reflects on hope. Here is a taste of her piece at Faith & […]