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Hope Is Here!:
Spiritual Practices for Pursuing Justice and Beloved Community
Luther Smith
Paperback: WJK Books, 2023
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“As we continue to work toward the elusive goal of Martin Luther King Jr.’s beloved community, what is the role of hope? Does hope energize us in the struggle for justice, or is it a form of wishful thinking that allows us to evade the fierce urgency of now? In this pivotal book, Luther E. Smith Jr.—drawing on his long, rich, and distinguished career as a teacher, scholar, preacher, and activist—reframes this question with the claim that hope is not a feeling but a force, a transformative ‘force of God that enlivens us to life.’ His evidence for that claim is compelling: story after story of people he calls ‘witnesses’ whose lives are animated by the power of hope. For Smith, these people are not mere case studies. They are hope incarnate, and they embody the possibility that we, too, may grow into the word of hope become flesh. As one who has sometimes felt distant from hope, this book has helped me understand that hope is never distant from me. May it do the same for you.”
—Parker J. Palmer
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