In this week’s sermon, Hagar’s Hope, Rev. Stephen Milton explores the story of Hagar, an enslaved woman cast out while pregnant with Abram’s child. Drawing connections to modern issues like declining birth rates, immigration, and reproductive rights, he shows how the politics of birth still marginalize the vulnerable. Yet in the wilderness, Hagar encounters God and becomes the first person in scripture to name the divine. Her story reveals a radical truth: God sees and blesses the outcast, calling us to do the same.