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's work
Beating paths through troubled times
Hope in disturbing times
Hope – is there any? We face multiple crises affecting every part of humanity and the earth – so what meaning can hope have in practice?
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 coronavirus outbreak (2/2): On going back to ‘normal’
Reading time: 11 min. Sean cleans the streets here. The high street is deserted – no people, no Big Mac boxes or Coke cans – so he spends his mornings going up the canal and down the river and round…
Hope and the coronavirus outbreak (1/2): A few first thoughts
I don’t really know what to make of what’s happening yet. ‘Normal’, such as it was, seems to have ended. It might come back, but for a long while at least most of us will probably be living in a…
Hope and the coronavirus outbreak (2/2): On going back to ‘normal’
Reading time: 11 min. Sean cleans the streets here. The high street is deserted – no people, no Big Mac boxes or Coke cans – so he spends his mornings going up the canal and down the river and round…
Hope and the coronavirus outbreak (1/2): A few first thoughts
I don’t really know what to make of what’s happening yet. ‘Normal’, such as it was, seems to have ended. It might come back, but for a long while at least most of us will probably be living in a…
