By the time we get to the age we are, we have had numerous reasons to lose, or re-evaluate, or dismiss hope, and even “fuggedaboutit” … Hope’s not worth it. “Been there, got let down, why return to Hope?” Marc Mullinax returns to address the practice of hope as an essential human and core spiritual practice. Hope is more than a vitamin pill, more than icing on the cake of a good life, more than some religion’s hype. It is at the core of who we are already, hope is the software we are born with, and to lose hope is to lose our humanity. To live out hope is an essential human task.

Dr. Mullinax, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Mars Hill University, is also an ordained American Baptist minister. He has a deep interest in Korea, where he spent a year-long sabbatical teaching at the world’s largest female-only university.