Love's Braided Dance: Hope in a Time of Crisis

by Norman Wirzba

A moving exploration of the place of hope in the world today, drawing on agrarian principles

In this series of meditations, Norman Wirzba recasts hope not as something people have, like a vaccine to prevent pain and trouble, but as something people do. Hope evaporates in conditions of abandonment and abuse. It grows in contexts of nurture and belonging. Hope ignites when people join in what Wendell Berry calls "love's braided dance"--a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300272650
• ISBN13: 9780300272659
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages