Tag: hope

• Anxiety and Hope as Existential Moods

  Psalm 131 -7/6/2026 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul within me is like a weaned child. O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time on and forevermore. Psalm 131:2-3 (NRSVue, alternate translation) Anxiety is an important mood for philosophical reasons. Anxiety exemplifies the…

  Justin R Marquis

  July 6, 2026

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  anxiety, christianity, existentialism, faith, god, heidegger, hope, human-condition, jesus, lectionary, lutheran, Mental Health, philosophy-of-religion, psalms, theology

• Our Powerlessness and the Question of How to Live

  Job 38:12-21 – 5/29/2026 Have you commanded the morning since your days began and caused the dawn to know its place[?] Job 38:12 (NRSVue) The answer to God’s rhetorical question to Job and his companions is obviously no. No one other than God commands the morning dawn to rise, not the righteous nor the unrighteous,…

  Justin R Marquis

  May 27, 2026

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  amor fati, buddhism, christianity, existentialism, god, hope, life, life affirmation, Nietzsche, philosophy, resignation, spirituality