A wonderful and practical book that focuses on how to translate hope into action. Lopez emphasizes three components to transforming hope from an idea into a way of living: a significant goal, a sense of agency, and cultivating multiple pathways toward the goal. He combines those components with stories and insights to help you become a hope-inspiring person.
How did Christianity go from having roughly 5,000 followers of Jesus in the year 50 to 5 million followers a couple of centuries later? Rowe suggests that the early Christians, inspired by the hope of Easter and a vision of Christ as the true human, engaged in innovative strategies of networks, institutions, and education. As a result, Christianity became surprising to the Greco-Roman world. How might we make Christianity surprising again through hope-inspired living and being future-shaping people?
This novel is a beautifully-crafted love letter from an elderly pastor to the son who was born to him late in life, reflecting on life, ministry, character-formation, and hope that spans generations. The final pages include some of the most beautiful writing and images of Christian imagination we have encountered. Robinson has written several subsequent novels that engage this story from other perspectives, and we recommend them as well: HOME, LILA, and (most recently) JACK.
This is an inspiring story of what has become known as the “Georgia State experiment” in providing support for low-income and first-generation students in higher education. Gumbel mixes stories that encourage hope with analyses of the ways Georgia State has developed new strategies to support and retain students who often find higher education a challenging environment to navigate. It stirs the imagination for being community-engaging and bridge-building people.