Hopeful Or Hopeless: What Story Are You Telling Yourself About America's Future?

Hope. One way to understand the human emotion of hope is seeing it as a particular kind of story we tell ourselves about the future.

Chris outlines two different possible stories about the future of our American society. One story is more hopeful, the other bleaker.

How might your view of the nature of human goodness affect the story you tell yourself about the future? Would you see divine intervention as part of the story you tell about the arc of history? Or are we alone to figure out our way forward? Does the arc of history bend toward justice?

Our show pushes back against the unexamined, often unconscious ways that we frame public questions using political or economic modes of thinking. We aim to be part of a growing movement of people who are critical of the narrowness of political and economic categories, and who want to revive a vision of human flourishing that is grounded in the wisdoms of theological and moral philosophical tradition. We see these habits and ways of thinking as being pre-political, and foundational to a healthy and civil shared life in families, communities, economies, and polities.

In short, we want to foster conversations, develop habits, and create communities that are grounded in curiosity, going deep, and shining light.

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