Welcome to Wood Hath Hope!

We are a small group discovering the message of Jesus as peace and hope for our world. We believe Jesus’ life and teaching are shifting the human landscape toward nonviolence and forgiveness, even as the crisis of our times continues to build.

We come from different church backgrounds, and none. We are united by a study and understanding of the bible which shows God’s plan was always to overcome violence and death in the world. This belief brings us together as community. We meet for prayer and celebration, and do simple service for others.

Although mainline churches are in decline, and fundamentalism promotes a violent theology, the message of Jesus is creating new communities and opportunities of peace all over the world. We seek to be a faithful part of this movement of the gentle divine Spirit, contributing to an emerging phenomenon.

 

Why Wood Hath Hope?

We chose Wood Hath Hope as a name because our small community came to birth in the aftermath of a freak tornado that hit Syracuse in September of 1998.

It upended trees, pulled down power lines and left stumps and splintered branches all over the city. This suggested to us the verse from Job quoted above, which refers to more than just trees --rather the way God can work to regenerate a broken world.

 





Tony Bartlett seeks to respond to 9/11. See Theology&Peace for full blog, Ritual In Perpetuam

"All of 9/11 represented a coding, a dense set of signs whereby some of the things most dear to Americans, to their self-image--and the images of that self-image and those images already under threat within themselves--all of this got replayed in real time and history as real catastrophe. How could this fiercely cinematic ritual not embed itself like a multiple barb in the national psyche? How could it not infect us like some devilishly designed mental virus loaded with fear, pain and anger? And how could it not provoke the re-ordering of everything in unhesitating retaliatory violence?"








Our Story & Vision... 
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Calendar of Events
Current and upcoming courses, community
gatherings, and events of interest.


Archive
Previous studies archived on this page. We begin with the Parallel Study of Mark and John which we completed December '08.