The world around us seems as turbulent as it has ever seemed. Life is tenuous with questions regarding global unrest, conflict, and economic decline. Politics continue to divide us, sowing seeds of doubt between one another even as we find more questions than answers.  As the people of God in Christ Jesus, how are we to approach and live in these kinds of times? Is there a way for us to live as a faithful presence that offers hope to a world in desperate need for it?