Old handwritten recipes conjure up all kinds of memories.
hope
Poetry for a world that’s falling apart
Jeremiah Webster charts a via negativa in verse.
What wondrous poems are these
James Crews's poetry is at once ecstatic, skeptical, and hopeful.
Theodicy in real life
William Abraham's theological affirmations of faith are shadowed by a persistent question: Why don't they work?
Antiblackness is outrageous, but it does not have the last word.
Take & read: New books in ethics
What does hope look like in the face of racism?
Miguel De La Torre’s ethic of hopelessness
De La Torre has little use for hope in a God who only seems to show up for Christians, never for their victims.
Proclaim the hope but proclaim it slant
Consolation comes to me at unexpected angles.
Wishes are about what we want. Hope is about what God wants.
Hope holds us in our time. Without it, we have no place in our own history.