An Optimized Faith is a Fragile Faith

How the impulse to optimize is crippling our ability to flourish in unpredictable times

Our world has become so regularly unpredictable (oh the irony!) over the past few years that it’s become a trope to say we are living in “unprecedented times.” Since 2016, we’ve had a chaotic political environment here in the US that just keeps getting crazier. We’ve had a global pandemic that caused death and economic destruction for many. We are watch…