Defiant hope : essays on life, faith, and freedom

Defiant hope Essays on life, faith, and freedom

Michael Gerson, 1964-2022

Book - 2024

"Defiant Hope is his writings about the things he loved--humanity, God, his dog, and his boys. Essays feature the immensely complicated sadness when you drop your children off at college for the first time. Another is about his public battle of depression. He also includes chapters about men and women who formed this great procession of Christian Reformers--John Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, William Wilberforce, and Olaudah Equiano--and the great causes to which they were devoted, from abolitionism to civil rights." --

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Subjects
Political science.
Christianity.
Fathers and sons.
Essays.
Genres
Essays
Published
New York, NY Simon & Schuster, Incorporated 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Michael Gerson, 1964-2022 (author)
Other Authors
David Brooks, 1961- (author of introduction)
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
Physical Description
xvi, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781668070260
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. America
  • What a Strange People
  • First Great Awakening / Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield: "Mysticism for the Masses"
  • Isaac Backus and the American Revolution: "The Logic of Liberty"
  • "The Appeal of Saint Dorothy" (The Washington Post, December 9, 2012)
  • "America Is Cursed with Tribal Morality" (The Washington Post, November 27, 2017)
  • Part 2. Faith
  • "The Last Temptation" (The Atlantic, April 2018)
  • "Trump Should Fill Christians with Rage. How Come He Doesn't?" (The Washington Post, September 1, 2022)
  • "The Defiant Hope of Christmas: God Is with Us" (The Washington Post, December 24, 2020)
  • "What Good Friday Teaches Us About Cynicism" (The Washington Post, April 13, 2017)
  • "The Strange Tension Between Theology and Science" (The Washington Post, April 24, 2014)
  • "Pope Francis Challenges the Faithful" (The Washington Post, November 17, 2014)
  • Part 3. Family
  • National Cathedral Sermon on Depression (February 17, 2019)
  • "Saying Goodbye to My Child, the Youngster" (The. Washington Post, August 19, 2013)
  • "After Cancer Diagnosis, Seeing Mortality in the Near Distance" (The Washington Post, December 5, 2013)
  • "Why I Will Never Live Without a Dog Again" (The Washington Post, January 4, 2022)
  • "Harry Potter and the Power of Myth" (The Washington Post, July 18, 2011)
  • "Crying at the Movies" (The Washington Post, January 7, 2013)
  • Part 4. Heroes
  • "Frederick Buechner Was a Writer Tuned In to the Frequency of Grace" (The Washington Post, August 22, 2022)
  • "Why Anthony Fauci Is the Greatest Public Servant I Have Known" (The Washington Post, October 10, 2022)
  • "George H. W. Bush's Life Proves That, Sometimes, Things Go Gloriously Right" (The Washington Post, December 3, 2018)
  • "Billy Graham Was Consumed by Grace" (The Washington Post, February 21, 2018)
  • "Nelson Mandela Steered South Africa from the Abyss" (The Washington Post, August 2, 2013)
  • "Charles Colson Found Freedom in Prison" (The Washington Post, April 22, 2012)
  • "Still Hope for the U.N." (The Wheaton Record, November 22, 1985)
  • Part 5. The Arena
  • "How the Gay Rights Movement Found Such Stunning Success" (The Washington Post, June 13, 2022)
  • "Abortion Deserves a Sober Debate. Instead, It Gets a War of Unreason." (The Washington Post, July 27, 2022)
  • "'Gaffes' Aside, I Once Assumed GOP Goodwill on Race. I Was Wrong." (The Washington Post, October 20, 2022)
  • "The Real Religious-Liberty Issue Is About Identity, Not Discrimination" (The Washington Post, June 7, 2018)
  • "Republicans in the Immigration Minefield" (The Washington Post, January 26, 2015)
  • "Americans' Aversion to Science Carries a High Price" (The Washington Post, May 12, 2014)
  • Part 6. Life and Death
  • "Too Many Americans Are Still in Covid Denial" (The Washington Post, May 19, 2022)
  • "George W. Bush's Words in State of Union Saved Millions of People" (The Washington Post, February 11, 2013)
  • "The Found Generation of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Africa" (The Washington Post, July 22, 2012)
  • "It Takes More Than a Village to Fight Malaria in Zambia" (The Washington Post, April 5, 2012)
  • Part 7. Presidents
  • "Trump Is an Authoritarian Wannabe. He Must Never Hold Power Again" (The Washington Post, December 21, 2020)
  • "One Final Election Plea, on the Behalf of U.S. Ideals" (The Washington Post, November 3, 2016)
  • "Our Complex President" (The Washington Post, January 23, 2014)
  • "George W. Bush, a Principled President" (The Washington Post, April 25, 2013)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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