
Fall 2020 | Seeking the Light: Notes on Hope
This year will go down as a historic test of our health, our economy, our complacency about racial progress, our electoral politics, ecological practices, the depths of sorrow and resilience. Year 2020 has also been a test of hope, which seemed caught off guard, as if the word had been muddied over the decades – confused with false uplift or blurred into optimism. In this Reflections issue, however, writers confront the times and examine their own hearts and find hope in manifold places – in political defiance, in prayer, in anger, in song, in small daily moments of grace, in honest bouts of despair, and in the endeavor to discern the presence of God who upholds the world.
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Reflections
From the Dean's Desk
One place that I often take visitors is the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT, located in the greater Hartford area. The museum is the former home of Theodate Pope Riddle, a pioneering architect. Theodate grew up in Cleveland but attended Miss Porter’s School (a finishing school) in Farmington in the 1880s. She fell in love with the area and persuaded her parents to build the home that later became the museum. In 1915, Theodate made arrangements to travel to England on the R.M.S. Lusitania which was torpedoed and sunk by a U-Boat.
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Reflections is a publication of Yale Divinity School