Making Hope: Practices, Prayers, and Parables for a Changing Climate - by O'Neil Van Horn (Paperback)

About the Book

"Practicing hope in ways that promote environmental justice and well-being"--

Book Synopsis

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 become new parables that might help us make hope where it is least felt and most needed.

Meditative, inviting, and prayerful, Van Horn's writing compassionately makes space and time for readers to experience the meaningful practice of hope.

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US$25.00

RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues

RELIGION / Spirituality

NATURE / Ecology

Making Hope

Practices, Prayers, and Parables for a Changing Climate

O'neil Van Horn

Cover design: Ponie Sheehan

Cover image: Megan Suttman

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ISBN 978-1-62698-640-4

Review Quotes

"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

About the Author

O'neil Van Horn is assistant professor, theology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH. He holds a PhD in philosophical and theological studies in religion from Drew University and was a Louisville Scholar from 2021 to 2023. With a background in organic agriculture and sustainability, he is author of On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics (Fordham University Press).