Patrick's Hope at World's End
A steady faith in shape shifting times It’s the end of the world as we know it (and it feels far from the fine that REM promised in their song). The world in which we live today seems to be a compound of complex crises, which are closing in around us. The cost of living crisis. The housing crisis. The climate crisis. If we add to this the devastation of the war in Ukraine and the earthquake in Turkey and Syria it brings an apocalyptic feel. The threatening world in which we live seems to be approaching the end. Culturally in recent years there have been a number of rapid changes which may make us feel like the ground is shifting under our feet. Where once the Christian worldview offered the fabric and foundations by which we might understand ourselves, now there is a newfound freedom and fluidity which means we understand ourselves most fully by looking deep within our own hopes and desires. Meaning is to be found inside rather than from any outside source. For at least some thi