Trusting God involves seeing reality

My previous post (“Hope in the Age of Climate Change”) raises a phrase that I tend to avoid using, although I believe it. It is this: Christian hope, however, is different. It is reasonably skeptical of the human capacity to bring good out of the deepest tragedy because humans lack the power to do so. I am just cautious about Continue Reading

Hope in the Age of Climate Change

“Being optimistic is based upon a trust in our capacity to achieve something out of nothing or in some cosmic notion of fate. Christian hope, however, is different. It is reasonably skeptical of the human capacity to bring good out of the deepest tragedy because humans lack the power to do so. It also rejects the concept of fate because Continue Reading