The church’s life is a pedagogy in hope. We preach hope, read hope, pray hope, sing hope, commune in hope, eat and drink hope.
Utopia has a bad reputation, but a vision of a perfected world is essential to political and personal hope.
Christian hope is imaginative, relational, irascible expectation of life in the face of death.
The world is terrified of apocalypse, but has no resources to sustain hope. The church is called to radical hope.