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There\u2019s not a lot making Americans hopeful these days. More than half of the country told pollsters last year that they were \u201cextremely worried\u201d about the direction of the country. One in 4 said that \u201cnothing made them hopeful.\u201d Their anxieties: politics, the pandemic, and inflation.\nThis year, existing worries have likely been compounded by fears and anger over mass shootings, the war in Ukraine, sex abuse scandal cover-ups by church leaders, a massive drought on the Southwest side of the country, climate change inaction, spiking fentanyl deaths, and an explosion in homelessness.In the midst of this, why should Christians hope?\nCarmen Joy Imes is associate professor of Old Testament at Biola University\u2019s Talbot School of Theology. She previously joined the show to nerd out about the Bible in light of Donald Trump getting COVID-19 and controversy over the San Francisco school board seeking to drop the names of well-known Americans from their schools.\nImes joined global media manager Morgan Lee to discuss what it looks like to practice hope in the midst of despair and how we move past Christian platitudes and flimsy one-liners to a robust faith in something greater than our present circumstances.\nWhat is Quick to Listen? Read more.\nRate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts\nFollow the podcast on Twitter\nFollow the host on Twitter: Morgan Lee\nMusic by Sweeps\nQuick to Listen is produced Morgan Lee and Matt Linder\nThe transcript is edited by Faith Ndlovu\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices