Reading time: 9 min. I ask the internet to show me ‘English countryside’ and up pops the usual: long vistas over fields of green and gold; trees coddled in dawn mist; gentle hills at sunset. Here is England as the…
Hope's work
Facing the future in an age of crises
Book: ‘Hope’s work’
This project is based on a short book, Hope’s work: Facing the future in an age of crises, to be published by Darton, Longman & Todd in May 2021.
Five queries in search of hope
For you, your family/friends, your community, your society, or your cause…
What makes hopeful people hopeful?
This series of eight blog posts explores six ‘core conditions’ of well-grounded hopefulness, or conscious hope. Please share – thank you!
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Hope and the ecological crisis (1): Making home
Reading time: 11 min. Hello again, and welcome to the first post in what might become a short series on the theme.
The weight of the white body
Reading time: 7 min. The weight of a white cop’s body, all of it, bearing down on a black person’s neck, held there for eight minutes, all year, for decades, centuries, since the first black slave was sold into American…
Hope and the ecological crisis (2): Piece work
Reading time: 9 min. I ask the internet to show me ‘English countryside’ and up pops the usual: long vistas over fields of green and gold; trees coddled in dawn mist; gentle hills at sunset. Here is England as the…
Hope and the ecological crisis (1): Making home
Reading time: 11 min. Hello again, and welcome to the first post in what might become a short series on the theme.
