Dale Biron On Poetry – A Podcast For Our Stunningly Beautiful, And Troubled World

Faith: Sometimes We Need It More Than Hope

Dale Biron Season 1 Episode 12

The earth is blaring an ear-piercing, mind-numbing, heart-breaking alarm telling us we’re in deep trouble. We're in trouble with unprecedented levels of species extinction, topsoil loss, habitat destruction, melting solar caps, chemical contamination, fishery collapse, climate-caused fires, droughts, and sea level rise plus, of course all the human challenges that are joined at the hip with these things. Let’s talk about the role of faith in all of this and how it may actually be more needed than hope. And how paradoxically it may return us to a greater, more genuine hope by creating a foundation of faith first. Oh, and there will be poems to help us...