Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: War is the great Anti-Hope. And we have more than enough of that in the world. Did we need more, or bigger? Will that finally gives us the illusion of security in a very volatile world? Because illusion is all it will give us — like the death [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: The title of my second book was certainly intended to get attention: Living Beyond the ‘End of the World:’ A Spirituality of Hope. End of the world? Hope? How do these things go together? It is uncomfortable, perhaps sad, certainly frightening, but an end of a world is [...]
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