In Making Hope, O’neil Van Horn explores how slow, still, and often quiet practices can cultivate hope for ourselves, each other, and our planetary home. With an accessible beauty, he shows how the ordinary things we do—mending, seed-saving, composting, and birding—can become new parables that might help us make hope where it is least felt and most needed.

 

Meditative, inviting, and prayerful, Van Horn’s writing compassionately makes space and time for readers to experience the meaningful practice of hope.

O’neil Van Horn is assistant professor, theology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH. He holds a PhD in philosophical and theological studies in religion from Drew University and was a Louisville Scholar from 2021 to 2023. With a background in organic agriculture and sustainability, he is author of On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics (Fordham University Press).

 

Cover design:  Ponie Sheehan

Cover image:   Megan Suttman