Our Optimistic Faith - Ruth Rinehart

Ruth Rinehart, a student at Iliff School of Theology, spoke about our optimistic faith. The Rev. James Freeman Clarke, in 1886, proclaimed Unitarianism an optimistic theology, which included “the progress of [hu]mankind, onward and upward forever.” Do we believe this? In the midst of climate chaos and the unspeakable brutality humans are capable of inflicting upon one another, what are our sources of hope?