IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES ON HOPE

The Rocks Would Shout.....................Thomas H. Troeger.........4
A new hymn on hope

Preaching on Hope.........................Frederick Buechner........5
Preachers should know their own hope and preach from it

Threats to Hope/Gospel of Hope............Walter J. Burghardt, S.J..6 
Jesus offers an answer to four contemporary threats to hope

Catching Hope.............................Henry H. Mitchell.........8
The experience of feeling hope is what creates hope

Preaching Hope as Retrospective:
An Evangelical View.......................Paul Zahl................10

Parables as Images of Hope................John R. Donohue, S.J.....12
The parables of Jesus invite us to preach through image and paradox

A Future Full of Hope.....................John Delaplane, O.P......14
Hope in the risen Jesus provides a vision of things to be

By Hope Surprised.........................June Bingham.............16
A story of hospital and hope

What I Hope for as a Preacher.............Ginger Grab..............17
A sermon is a many-sided conversation

Hope and The Environment..................Larry L. Rasmussen.......18
The eco-crisis and the role hope plays in saving the planet

Hope as Idea and Reality..................John Macquarrie..........20
Failure must not stop us from finding hope

Christian Hope............................John Macquarrie..........21
Selections

The Politics of Hope......................August Heckscher.........22
Great political leaders both arouse and are sustained by hope

QUOTATIONS ON HOPE

In the Hebrew Scriptures [24]
In the New Testament Scriptures [25]
By Leaders, Politicians, Statesmen [26]
By Poets, Writers, Artists [27]
By Psychologists, Scientists, Medical Doctors [28]
By Scholars, Philosophers, Historians [29]
By Saints and Mystics [29]

BOOKS ON HOPE

Images of Hope by William Lynch [30]
Jesus The Crucified People by C.S. Song [31]
Black Theology and Black Power by James Cone [31]
The Hopeful Imagination by Walter Brueggemann [33]
The Way of Israel by James Muilenberg; The People Called by Paul Hanson
[32-33]
To Work and To Love by Dorothee Soelle [34]
Reinhold Niebuhr, The Way of Jesus Christ by Jurgen Moltmann,
The Practice of Faith by Karl Rahner [36]

NOTES ON HOPE

For a Sermon on Hope......................Donald Coggan..............39
From William H. Willimon on Hope..........William H. Willimon........40
in acts 8
We are both Creators and Creatures........Thomas C. Lamont...........41
of Hope
Preaching From Within Our Own Hope........Don M. Wardlaw.............43
Reflections on Hope.......................James L. Kidd..............45
Thoughts About a Sermon on Hope...........David H.C. Read............47
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