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Review: Hints of Hope
Hints of Hope Hints of Hope, Steven Garber, foreword by Makoto Fujimura. Paraclete Press (ISBN: 9798893480344) 2026. Summary: How we might live with hope in a beautiful but broken world where even our best efforts realize only proximately our ideals. As followers of Christ, we speak of our hope in Christ, of new life in a renewed creation. But that seems far away for many of us. In the lives…
Throughout history good people have tried to make sense of their own moments, socially, culturally, politically, working hard to understand what is possible, given the brokenness of life. Wherever and whenever people live, our deepest questions are always the same. Is it possible to honestly account for the ruin of the human heart and still live with hope? Can we form the habits of heart that allow us to know the world and still love it? Or are we fated to be cynics or stoics? The vision of proximate justice offers the possibility that we can find a way to be honest about the world, and ourselves, without giving in to despair.
from Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good by Steven Garber
Living our lives between times is the human experience. Deep within us is the hope that it was not always this way, and equally deep is the longing that it will not always be this way. We cry out against the pain and the sorrow, against the injustice and the evil. And with the promise of all things being made new, on the one hand, and the wound of the world felt so painfully in every human heart on the other, we are in poignant conflict over the now-but-not-yet of history. Theological categories they are, and they have spanned the centuries; but that they are and have is because they are lines in the sand for everyone everywhere, stretched taut between what we know we ought to do and what, more often than not, we actually do. There are not cheap answers to this tension. Everyone who takes life seriously knows the reality of this strain. We awaken to it, and we go to sleep with it because it is life for every one of us.
Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good by Steven Garber
When we find that all that we hope for does not happen, that sometimes the worst things happen, what then? When we discover that our best hopes have been disappointed, what then? Some choose versions of stoicism or cynicism, deciding for very good reasons that “I have had enough.”
But then, with surprising grace, some choose to keep at it, hard as it is—and slowly but surely discover different loves that become part of their different lives. Always and everywhere, they do so understanding that they are making peace with the proximate. With something, even if it is not everything. With something rather than nothing.
Excerpt From: "Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good" by Steven Garber
Review: The Seamless Life
The Seamless Life, Steven Garber. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2020.
Summary: A collection of short reflections around the integral relationship between our daily life and work and the love of God, accompanied by the author’s photography.
Steven Garber has written thoughtfully on the integration of faith and learning for students in The Fabric of Faithfulness, and of loving a broken word,…
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“We see out of our hearts. We commit ourselves to living certain ways—because we want to—and then we explain the universe in a way that makes sense of that choice. It is why Augustine’s long-ago question still rings true: you cannot really know someone by asking, “What do you believe?” It is only when you ask, “What do you love?” that we begin to know another. We see out of our hearts? Yes, because we live out of our loves.”
- Steven Garber, Visons of Vocation
“Knowing what I know, what will I do? There are people who see themselves implicated in the way the world is and ought to be. For love’s sake, they see themselves as responsible for the way the world turns out. Sometimes they are bankers, and sometimes they make hamburgers. But always and everywhere, they are people who have vocations in imitation of the vocation of God: knowing the worst about the world, and still loving the world. They are people who learn to live in the tension of life, living with what is and longing for what will be—keeping clear of the great temptations, for the sake of the world. Simply said, they become hints of hope.”
Steven Garber, Visions of Vocation
