Feasting on Hope in a Starving Culture with Hannah Miller King
Good Faith
Good Faith
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
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
Sign up for The After Party
Sign up for The Good List
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)
More from Hannah Miller King:
- Hannah Miller King's article at Christianity Today
- Hannah Miller King's website
Follow Us:
Good Faith on X (formerly Twitter)
The Good Faith Podcast is a production of a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan organization that does not engage in any political campaign activity to support or oppose any candidate for public office. Any views and opinions expressed by any guests on this program are solely those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Good Faith.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | We're not always going to be firing on all cylinders. I'm a mom of young children. And so there are |
| 0:05.9 | plenty of days in church when I or they are just like barely, barely making it, you know. And yet I think |
| 0:13.8 | the discipline of worship for the long haul, it is training us in relationship with God, relationship with other Christians, giving us that sense of hope for the world that we're in Monday through Saturday. |
| 0:43.4 | Thank you. Welcome to the Good Faith podcast. |
| 0:47.7 | We're friends who follow Jesus, help each other make sense of the world. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm your host, Curtis Chang. This podcast is produced by a nonpartisan 501c3 organization. |
| 0:54.9 | If your life in the world consists of attending church with any regularity, |
| 1:00.8 | this means you regularly participate in the act of communion. |
| 1:06.3 | But each time you take into yourself the bread and the wine, have you ever silently wondered, |
| 1:14.4 | is there more to this practice than what I'm realizing? |
| 1:18.5 | When Jesus said, do this in remembrance of me, what did he truly mean? |
| 1:24.3 | And do we as his followers truly grasp it? |
| 1:30.0 | For much of my life as a Christian, |
| 1:36.5 | I've secretly been haunted by this question. That's why I was so eager to talk to Hannah King Miller, |
| 1:43.9 | author of the new book titled Feasting on Hope, How God Sets a Table in the Wilderness. This book is really about communion. And given how hopeless the world can feel right now and given how many of us feel like we're in some sort of spiritual wilderness, I wanted to explore with her the question, what is that more in the act of communion? What are the deeper truths of communion that we may not fully get? |
| 2:04.6 | And why is diving deeper into communion, especially crucial to making sense of our life in the world right now? |
| 2:12.6 | I think you'll get a great deal from this discussion that lies at the heart of Christian life. |
| 2:19.7 | Here's my conversation with Hannah. |
| 2:23.8 | Hannah, welcome to the Good Faith podcast. |
| 2:26.1 | Thanks so much for having me. It's an honor. |
| 2:31.7 | Hannah, I think it's important for us to begin this whole conversation about communion by really getting at the core meaning of what communion is. |
| 2:36.2 | And this is important because in our good faith audience, we have people coming from a really |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Good Faith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Good Faith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.