In every age, in each culture, Christians must be prepared to explain the reason for their hope (1 Peter 3: 15). We live in a profoundly disruptive and disorienting age. On every street, behind every other door, lives someone who is deeply disheartened if not actually despairing. This may be brought on by the awareness of massive and meaningless death, the randomness of violence, the onset of early illness, the loss of a loved one or a job or a sense of meaning and value. For our times, there may be nothing more important than hope. Yet hope of the deepest kind seems hard to come by. This session will focus on hope as an openness to possibility that can only come as a gift.