Hope: A User's Manual

✍ Scribed by MaryAnn McKibben Dana

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What hope is, what hope isn’t, and how to find it in hopeless times.
Hope is not optimism. It’s not toxic positivity. It’s not a promise of future success or progress. And it’s definitely not something that can be reduced to a scripty-font platitude on an Instagram post.
So what is it?
One thing is certain: real hope demands that we do something with it. That we live it out. That we use hope to participate in a bigger story playing out behind the bleak world we see on the news or in our social media feeds every day.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a person of faith, or someone disillusioned with faith, or someone who hardly ever thinks about faith: if you’re a human being who longs for a spiritual counternarrative to live by, this book points to one resilient enough to endure crises and crushing defeats. If...