hope

Two new books on praying, caring, and acting for the earth

For both Paul Mariani and Mark Jarman, the mystery is theological.

Esau McCaulley’s book reclaims what the Black church has always known.

Lament and longing can be companions.

A luminous poetry collection marked by joy and sorrow, humor and truth.

Living into the desired new creation is our work—and God’s promise.

Since my son’s accident, everything I understand about hope has changed.

In his response to John, Jesus speaks of hope in the present tense.

Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?

Old handwritten recipes conjure up all kinds of memories.

Jeremiah Webster charts a via negativa in verse.

James Crews's poetry is at once ecstatic, skeptical, and hopeful.

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.

What does hope look like in the face of racism?

De La Torre has little use for hope in a God who only seems to show up for Christians, never for their victims.

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.

This year, as I meditated on my longing, my pregnant hope, I located it on that table, somewhere between the salad and the ravioli, when our imperfect lives came together.