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What if love, imperfect, emotional, stubborn love, really is the strongest force in the universe?

In this episode of Hope is Kindled, we take a deep and thoughtful journey into A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, a story many of us first encountered as children and only later realized was asking some of the most profound questions literature can ask.

Through close story and character analysis, historical and biographical context, psychological insight, and rich comparisons to works like The Odyssey, Frankenstein, 1984, Doctor Who, and Stranger Things, we explore how this deceptively simple novel confronts fear, conformity, and the loss of self—and why it insists so fiercely on hope.

With the final season of Stranger Things airing now, A Wrinkle in Time feels especially timely. Its warnings about sameness, control, and comfort at the cost of humanity echo loudly today, as does its quiet, defiant belief that what saves us is not power or intellect, but connection.

At the heart of the episode is one radical idea:
Love is something you do.

Not sentimental love.
Not easy love.
But love chosen in the face of fear—and carried, imperfectly, into the dark.

This is an episode about light that does not deny darkness, hope that does not wait to be rescued, and the daily courage it takes to remain human.

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