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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.
About the Author
MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a writer of numerous articles and essays and author of Sabbath in the Suburbs: A Family's Experiment with Holy Time through Chalice Press. The book has been featured on PBS's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and in Publishers Weekly and was named a "must read for 2013" by Ministry Matters.
She is a frequent speaker and workshop leader around issues of spirituality, leadership, and congregational transformation. She is co-chair of NEXT Church, a movement that seeks to call forth and nurture vibrant and creative ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA) . She served as a congregational pastor for twelve years.
She is a mother of three, a haphazard knitter, an aspiring marathoner, and a baker and eater of muffins.
