Making Hope: Practices, Prayers, and Parables for a Changing Climate

    “A wonderfully grounded book! Explaining how to make earthy prayers with everyday life, and how relational practices activate hope, O’neil Van Horn offers an intelligent spiritual manual for a climate-haunted world.” –Willis Jenkins, Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics, University of Virginia   “This hope—free of optimism and dogmatism, passivity and certainty—practices its possibility now. Even as we read, Van Horn enlivens our courage, our care, our communing: and so he seeds and ferments, mends and bakes a better world with us.” –Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, The Theological School, Drew University; author, No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility In Making Hope, O’neil Van Horn explores how slow, still, and often quiet practices can cultivate hope for ourselves, each other, and our planetary home. With an accessible beauty, he shows how the ordinary things we do—mending, seed-saving, composting, and birding—can beco