Is There a Hidden Power of Communion in a Hopeless Age?

Hannah Miller King joins Curtis Chang on the Good Faith podcast to discuss her book Feasting on Hope: How God Sets a Table in the Wilderness and why communion is more than a symbolic church ritual. Together, they explore the Lord's Supper, Christian hope, embodied worship, and how the table of God forms Christians to resist consumer culture and carry resurrection-shaped love into a hopeless world. They discuss why this embodied practice connects believers to Christ's past sacrifice, present grace, and future return and show how the practice retrains our loves and sends us outward in mission.

02:28 - What Does Union with Christ Look Like Across All Traditions?

05:04 - The Differences: Symbolic vs. Sacramental Views

12:13 - Does the Lord's Supper Connect to Daily Life?

15:40 - Is It a Means of Hope in a Hopeless World?

26:40 - Is The Richness In "Remembering" Christ's Past, Present, and Future?

29:50 - Detaching From Worldly Loves to Re-Attach to God

33:10 - The Power of Routine Practice

35:09 - A Commission to Welcome Others

Mentioned In This Episode:

Hannah Miller King's book — Feasting on Hope: How God Sets a Table in the Wilderness

Scriptures Referenced:

Luke 22:19 (ESV)
The Last Supper / Institution of Communion: Luke 22:14–20 (ESV), Matthew 26:26–29 (ESV), or Mark 14:22–25 (ESV)
1 Corinthians 11:23–26 (ESV)
Revelation 19:6–9 (ESV)
Exodus 12 (ESV)