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Podcast: For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Episode: Hope Pt. 1, The Thing With Feathers / Miroslav Volf
Description: Show NotesāPerhaps, we just need to say it. This is not exactly a hopeful timeāāBut hope is for the no exit scenario. Hope is for the life teetering on the edgeāFear is more characteristic of our time than hope isOptimism in the late 60s gave way to increasing pessimism in 21st centuryĀ Theologies of hopelessness are on the riseĀ How Covid has shaped our fearĀ Even before the pandemic, we feared more than we hopedĀ Dystopian movies and literature: we fear the loss of our cultureĀ āFear and hope seem like exclusive experiences, and thatās not entirely wr...