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This Month's Featured Article:

The Challenge Of Hope

Article Archive:

Finding Yourself In The Faces Of Others

Does Your God Deserve Your Worship?

If You're Not Dying, You're not Living

Giving Up Could Save Your Life

This One Thought Could Change Your Whole Year

The Living Sacrament

Recovering a Sense of Awe

Three Dimensional Faith: Creating a vibrant life through integrative spirituality

A Faith with a View: Being the change you want to see

A Competitive Faith: Believing and achieving - a contradiction?

A Bigger Vision: Believing on purpose

Faith Breaks Free: Finding a God of our own

Knowing the Unknowable: Believing as a quest for reason and refuge

Faith on the Edge: Believing just to stay alive

Lament: The Cry of a Broken, Worshipping Heart

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The Challenge Of Hope

Have you stopped watching the news yet? With the constant stream of reports about rising fuel and food prices, xenophobic violence and human rights abuses, global warming and recession, you can be forgiven if you have! But, as difficult as it can be to hear these stories, as people of faith we cannot allow ourselves the luxury of cynicism or despair. We are called to be a different voice in all the negative noise.

Unfortunately, the voice of faith is all too often heard as either fantasy or fatalism. On the one hand, we may be tempted to offer vague platitudes of reassurance: Don�t worry. It�s all in God�s hand. Everything will work out fine in the end. As true as this may be, it comes across as denial, leading others to wish we would just get real. On the other hand, believers have sometimes been seen as jubilantly expectant in the face of such events, confirming them as �signs of the end� as we sit back and wait for Jesus to return. Neither response offers help or hope to the world.

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