This Christmas, Let’s Rekindle Our Hope for a Better World
There’s plenty of reason for despair these days. But this Christmas, we can look to radical Christians past and present like Nina Turner and Eugene V. Debs to rekindle our hope for a better world — and rededicate ourselves to building it.
Nina Turner speaks at a campaign rally for Bernie Sanders at the Charleston Area Convention Center on February 26, 2020 in North Charleston, South Carolina. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
This Christmas, it is not easy to hold onto hope. COVID-19 deaths have surpassed three hundred thousand. Twenty-seven and a half million Americans are without health care. Many workers cannot pay rent or put food on the table, even as Jeff Bezos and others in the 1 percent grow richer by the day.
But amid the chaos, we can look to voices from the past and present that lift our spirits, fortify our resolve, and help us organize.
From Cleveland, Ohio, we can hear a familiar and encouraging cry: “Hello Somebody!” Nina Turner is running for Congress. In her launch video, she makes plain what needs to be born into this world:
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