Reflections | Reflections

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Fall 2020 | Seeking the Light: Notes on HopeThis year will go down as a historic test of our health, our economy, our complacency about racial progress, our electoral politics, ecological practices, the depths of sorrow and resilience. Year 2020 has also been a test of hope, which seemed caught off guard, as if the word had been muddied over the decades – confused with false uplift or blurred into optimism. In this Reflections issue, however, writers confront the times and examine their own hearts and find hope in manifold places – in political defiance, in prayer, in anger, in song, in small daily moments of grace, in honest bouts of despair, and in the endeavor to discern the presence of God who upholds the world.Cover image by Stijn te Strake/Unsplash Letter from the Dean One place that I often take visitors is the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT, located in the greater Hartford area. The museum is the former home of Theodate Pope Riddle, a pioneering architect. Theodate grew up in Cleveland but attended Miss Porter’s School (a finishing school) in Farmington in the 1880s. She fell in love with the area and persuaded her parents to build the home that later became the museum. In 1915, Theodate made arrangements to travel to England on the R.M.S. Lusitania which was torpedoed and sunk by a U-Boat. Read more Theologies of HopeBy Miroslav VolfOur salvation lies in hope - not in hope that insists on the future good it has imagined, but in hope ready to rejoice in the kind of good that actually comes our way.Read more Anger is the Engine of Hope Now By Willie JenningsThese are times for calling on the power of God and dismantling habits of cultivated ignorance.Read more Throw-Pillow TheologyBy Ellen B. Koneck ’16 M.A.R.Instead of hiding behind platitudes, real hope confronts the despair of grievous loss. Read more Feast Day for St. HarrietBy Donyelle McCrayHarriet Tubman, famed liberator of slaves, found the spirit of God in her own treacherous escape from bondage.Read more Masks, Freedom, and the Power of CovenantBy Sarah B. DrummondThe idea of covenant releases us from the looming insecurity or fear that our community will fall apart when times are tough and we need it most.Read more The Greatest Of These (Right Now)By Lyn Brakeman ’82 M.Div.If faith and love are in short supply, notice the small daily bursts of that other theological virtue.Read more Our Love and Dignity are Not for SaleBy Abner Cotto-Bonilla ’18 M.Div., ’19 S.T.M.Despite the historical travails of El Salvador and Puerto Rico, the writer finds varieties of “hope being born again” there.Read more Gestures of the SoulBy Gregory MobleyBlest be the tie that binds contemporary nonviolent protestors to the biblical prophets.Read more Odes to Black HopeBy Jathan Martin ’21 M.Div.The memory of God’s deliverance allows us to sing when our throats are weary and give life when our lives are crying out to matter. Read more George Floyd’s Last Words, Stitched into Our SoulsBy Mark Koyama ’15 M.Div.The Sacred Ally Quilt Project, an effort of nine UCC congregations across New Hampshire, is creating a series of 10 quilts that together feature the last living words that George Floyd uttered while pinned to the pavement.Read more When Hope is CounterintuitiveBy Gregory E. SterlingOur hope is not simply our future hope of life with God, but our present life in which we experience God’s love.Read more On the Other Side of the UnknownBy Stephen H. Phelps ’73 B.A., ’86 M.Div.Only after the last familiar hope has foundered can a person be helped onto a path to the light. This help is not of this world.Read more What Shall We Tell Our Babies?By Willard C. Ashley, Sr. ’84 M.Div. (ANTS), ’92 D.Min. (ANTS)Sunday after Sunday, clergy are pushed to make some sense out of this senseless moment in history.Read more From the Editor: Higher DestinyBy Ray WaddleI asked the writers to provide their own take on hope, a word that was getting more complicated by the day.Read more Download full issues of Reflections in PDF format (issues up through Spring 2020), suitable for printing or sharing.

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