“Hope, Danger’s Comforter”: Thucydides, Hope, Politics

"Hope, Danger's Comforter": Thucydides, Hope, Politics

Redemptive Organizations and the Politics of Hope

The politics of hope of this article is rooted in the local leadership of low income, repressed communities. One central element of the politics of hope is redemptive organizations. These organizations are a variant of voluntary associations that are distinguished by their explicitly political purpose of social transformation and concomitant requirement of personal sacrifice and transformation....

Hope against Hope

In the penultimate chapter of the Bible, in the opening statement of the very last speech God makes in the whole of the Christian Scriptures, God says: "Behold I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). The prophet sees the old heavens and the old earth the universe as it now is passing away, and new heavens and a new earth, God's new creation of all things, coming into being. It is not that God r...

Delivering hope

Towards hope

LJPC is not so much a journal I would say. It is more like a movement that gives hope by championing and supporting a broad vision for health and care. It lifts our eyes beyond the single picture frame to view a whole gallery. It also provides opportunities to think freely and design systems and models of care that derive from the range of people’s needs and meet them, rather than simply descri...