Hope in Troubled Times: A New Vision for Confronting Global CrisesWe want to have it all: financial strength, secure homes, clean air and water for our children. With the latest technological advances available, we deserve to have every dilemma resolved. Isn't that the way it's supposed to work? Hope in Troubled Times dares to say "no." Poverty, terrorism, and overtaxed land are planetary problems that make even believers despair. But the authors point to Christ as the source of hope. Our choice is obvious. We work together, learning to live unselfishly, or we watch civilization sink further into the abyss. With a foreword by renowned human rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Hope in Troubled Times provides real-world solutions to life-threatening problems. The authors show that with God's guidance we can knock down the idols that stunt clear thinking. |
Contents
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Ideologies That Spearhead Radical Change | 47 |
Fear Longing and Trust | 57 |
Material Progress and Prosperity Unshackled | 85 |
Guaranteed Security | 99 |
Two Paths before Us | 127 |
Colliding Ideologies | 133 |
Globalization | 139 |
The Rise of Social Paradoxes and Structural | 157 |
9 | 169 |
Notes | 207 |
Acknowledgments | 243 |
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