Hope Springs Eternal
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Believe it or not, someone named a church Hope Springs Community Church.. It reminds me of the Alexander Pope poem, An Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 95: “Hope springs eternal in the human breast:/ Man never is, but always to be blest:/ The soul, uneasy and confin�d from home,/ Rests and expatiates in a life to come.” Their titular allusion to great literature appears to have been completely unwitting. Their slogan is, “Where Hope happens.” It strikes me that if they were not 100% clue-free, they would have made their slogan the quote above. All of which assumes an answer to the first question: Why would anyone name their church that? (Note that Pope’s pessimistic gnosticism seems to be completely absent from their mission statement and strategy.)