“You’re much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.” - Superman in All-Star Superman #10 written by Grant Morrison The Daily Planet reporter, Clark Kent, dashes into a phone booth and emerges transformed into his red-caped alter ego. As Superman, he takes to the air and defies the laws of physics, streaking across the skyline on his way to save someone in the city from certain disaster. For the past 80 years our culture has been enthralled by stories of superheroes. Wonde

In my last post, “Our Stories, Our Connections,” I described my recent airport encounter with a woman named AnnaGrace. A nurse by profession, AnnaGrace is a gatherer of people’s stories—stories she and others share on her blog, The Ordinary Human (commonbeings). I met AnnaGrace purely by chance, but our brief encounter made an impression. We talked a bit about hope, and my belief that hope is what sustains human beings through challenge and adversity. Desmond Tutu once said t