Buy the Field Anyway: A Case for Stubborn Hope

About this episode

Trevor Wentt discusses the practice of hope in the face of despair, drawing on biblical and personal stories.

What do you do when everything around you is collapsing — your community, your faith, your sense of home — and someone tells you to act like it's going to be okay? That's the tension at the heart of this talk, and it's not a hypothetical. It's the question Jeremiah faced in a jail cell while his city was under siege. Trevor Wentt draws on the story of Jeremiah buying land he had no business buying, the Palestinian practice of holding onto house keys across generations, and his own improbable journey to becoming an all-state wrestler — to make a case that hope isn't passive. It's a practice. Sometimes it's a deed in a jar. Sometimes it's a barbecue. Whether you're rebuilding your faith, navigating a world that feels like it's unraveling, or just trying to figure out what it even means to act with hope right now — this one's for you.

People in this episode

Host: Jeremiah

Topics covered

• hope
• faith
• community
• resilience

Keywords

• Jeremiah
• buying land
• stubborn hope
• Palestinian practice
• all-state wrestler

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