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Kate Bowler and Wajahat Ali — The Future of Hope

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Future of Hope

Theologian and cancer survivor kate bowler, in conversation with journalist wajah ali. i think that we try so hard to save ourselves from future pain by preparing. I've never felt that just because a future might be good, that it would make the present bearable. It's still making your kid sandwiches,. trying to balance that painful, ridiculous work of ligf hope, and also remembering your friend's birthdays. People say insane things like nothing, we'll be wasted. Like, absolute crap. We lose things we can't get back. We make dumb investments with our time, like rot. And then there's all people who live in the past - which is

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