The Practice of Hope in the Here and Now
Abstract
In these dark times, we’re often challenged to sustain a sense of hopefulness. I see this especially in younger scholars, with whom I sometimes collaborate, and who despair of ever seeing a more just world. In conversation with them I find myself advocating for a balance between our commitments to big-picture changes and participation in smaller, local projects. These latter can provide immediate, sustaining satisfactions. Without abandoning our more ambitious dreams, defined, proximate goals allow us space to experience a modulated or educated hope that works in the present to move us forward to a better future.
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