Life in America is deeply anxious. Where are we headed? How bad could it get? Who are we, anyway? What’s particularly scary is that everyone’s scared. Even the people whose candidate just won are ...

There are about 8.2 billion people in the world, each with their own hopes for the coming year. So as I did for my turn-of-the-year letters last year and the year before, I asked a variety of people, ...

Hope feels elusive in America right now. Suicides and fatal drug overdoses—so-called deaths of despair resulting from a seeming lack of hope—are at unprecedented levels. Mental-health problems are on ...

The theme of the 2025 Jubilee Year is “Pilgrims of Hope.” For those who wish to embark on a spiritual pilgrimage through reading and prayer during the Lenten season — or anytime during this sacred ...

Advent reminds us that Christian hope is shaped by what has happened and what’s going to happen again. My mother, Young Kim, was born in Korea in 1948 as the nation was on the precipice of civil war.

HOPE, N.M. – This town's story is one of big ambitions ruined by improbable events. There was the railroad investor who went down with the Titanic. The banker who fled to Mexico with the town’s money.

We believe in the transformational power of a Hope College education. We also believe that a student’s financial situation should never be a barrier to that experience. Hope Forward is an innovative ...

Hope has always been present in leadership quests aiming to achieve better futures. Hope has been an intriguing topic throughout the history of humankind. Many thinkers, from the ancient Greeks to ...

I know I sometimes feel cynicism or despair when I think about the new year, and it seems many of my friends do, too. With so much uncertainty and seemingly intractable world problems needing ...

As I type this now, my husband is nearly two weeks in hospital, recovering from COVID-19. And in the time it takes me to assemble these thoughts, several people will have lost their lives to this ...