Hope

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), who was part of the movement known as phenomenology. While less well-known than his contemporaries Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, his popularity has increased among philosophers in ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC as he waited to be executed by drinking hemlock. Both works show Socrates preparing to die in the way he had lived: doing philosophy. In the Crito, Plato shows ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosophy of hope. To the ancient Greeks, hope was closer to self-deception, one of the evils left in Pandora's box or jar, in Hesiod's story. In Christian tradition, hope became one of the theological virtues, the desire for divine union and ...  Show more

In this episode, Tim Keller explores questions around hope for the future. Can we live without hope? Can hope exist in the face of death and all the evil in the world? This final talk of the 2019 Questioning Christianity series was recorded before a live audience on April 18, 201 ...  Show more

This week, join Father Barouyr as he discusses the meaning of hope, and the important role that in plays in our lives. 

This week we are diving in to our Advent theme of Hope. How is your hope? What do you want it to look like? We would love to have a little heart check and see where we are in our walk with the Lord during this Advent season! Together, we can reflect on the excitement and antic ...