Hope – Mike Angell

The Power of Lament

This has been a tough week for St. Louis. How do we make room for grief, for anger, and for hope? How do we work together to make change?

Is it the end, or the beginning?

Until we decide to stop seeing this moment as the end of history, until we start asking “what new world would we like to see born?” we are stuck in the apocalypse.

Easter, the Wildness of God’s Mercy

Easter tells us Jesus’ revolution of love won’t happen on our terms. Jesus’ resurrection asks you to hope, and to hold your hope in a direction you can’t control… The resurrection is a deep wildness in God’s mercy.

We need Advent this year

Jesus worked for, prayed for, organized for the end of the world where the wealthy, the connected, the privileged thrived on the backs of the vulnerable. Jesus wanted that world to end in his day. God wants that world to end in ours.