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Plough Quarterly No. 46 – The Call of Beauty
UK Edition
Av Paul Kingsnorth, Wendell Berry m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
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Nature is so beautiful it must mean something. Christians have seen in the beauty of creation a sign of the beauty of the Creator; the natural world teaches us to know the “author of beauty.” But anyone who starts thinking more seriously about beauty soon runs into more troubling aspects.We’re more …
Plough Quarterly No. 34 – Generations
Av Emmanuel Katongole, Clarice Lispector m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
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We’re born with a hunger for roots and a desire to pass on a legacy.The past two decades have seen a boom in family history services that combine genealogy with DNA testing, though this is less a sign of a robust connection to past generations than of its absence. Everywhere we see a pervasive …
Plough Quarterly No. 41 – Freedom
UK Edition
Av Jordan Castro, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
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In an election season, all political parties claim to champion freedom, which highlights the very different ways people think about what it means to be free. This issue of Plough Quarterly explores many dimensions of freedom: not only what people need to be freed from, but what we are set free to …
Plough Quarterly No. 44 – Why Be Healthy?
Av David Zahl, Malcolm Guite m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
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In an age of health care and wellness industries and near-religious pursuit of fitness and self-optimization, what does “health” mean for the chronically ill? For people with disabilities or mental health challenges or neurodiversity? For the aging and dying? This issue asks what it means to live …
Plough Quarterly No. 25 – Solidarity
Av James Gurney, Emmanuel Katongole m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
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The summer of 2020 has shown us how much we all depend on one another.Whatever else they do, pandemics show us we are not alone. Covid-19 is proof that, yes, there is such a thing as society; the disease has spread precisely because we aren’t autonomous individuals disconnected from each other, but …
Plough Quarterly No. 27 – The Violence of Love
Av Anthony M. Barr, Gracy Olmstead m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
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How did violence become OK? And is there any way back?At some point between George Floyd’s killing on May 25 and the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, America’s consensus against political violence crumbled. Before 2020, almost everyone agreed that it should be out of bounds. Now, many are …
Plough Quarterly No. 28 – Creatures
The Nature Issue
Av Adam Nicolson, Gracy Olmstead m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
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When we read the book of nature, what do we read there? “All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all,” says a well-known hymn. This issue of Plough celebrates the creatures of our planet – plant, animal, and human – and …
Plough Quarterly No. 29 – Beyond Borders
Av Edwidge Danticat, Russell Moore m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
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Canwe move beyond borders that divide us without losing our identity? Overthe past decade, theyearning for rootedness, for being part of a story bigger than oneself, hasflared up as a cultural force to be reckoned with. There’s much to affirm in thisdesire to belong to a people. That means pride in …
Plough Quarterly No. 30 – Made Perfect
Ability and Disability
Av Molly McCully Brown, Victoria Reynolds Farmer m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
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Whose lives count as fully human? The answer matters for everyone, disabled or not.The ancient Greek ideal linked physical wholeness to moral wholeness – the virtuous citizen was “beautiful and good.” It’s an ideal that has all too often turned deadly, casting those who do not measure up as less …
Plough Quarterly No. 31 – Why We Make Music
Av Christopher Tin, Stephen Michael Newby m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
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Communal music has the power to shape a soul and a society.In many places today, a culture of singing and making music remains robust, despite pressure from the commercial music industry. Or it was until the Covid pandemic hit and we glimpsed what a world without communal music-making could be …
Plough Quarterly No. 32 – Hope in Apocalypse
Av David Bentley Hart, Mindy Belz m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
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In times that feel apocalyptic, where do we place our hope?It's an apocalyptic moment. The grim effects of climate change have left many people in despair. Young people often cite climate fears as a reason they are not having children. Then there’s the threat of nuclear war, again in the cards, …
Plough Quarterly No. 33 – The Vows That Bind
Av Wendell Berry, Lydia S. Dugdale m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
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In a culture that prizes keeping one’s options open, making commitments offers something more valuable.The consumerism and instant gratification of “liquid modernity” feed a general reluctance to make commitments, a refusal to be pinned down for the long term. Consider the decline of three forms of …
Plough Quarterly No. 37 – The Enemy
UK Edition
Av Benjamin Crosby, Archbishop Angaelos m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
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What should we do with enemies?Jesus challenges us to love our enemies. In today’s swirl of hatemongering, political polarization, and online nastiness, even Christians have skirted this command or given it up as impossible or foolish. What does it really mean to love our enemies? And how might our …
Plough Quarterly No. 39 – The Riddle of Nature
UK Edition
Av William Thomas Okie, Angel Adams Parham m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
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What is our place in nature?Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have has exercised unprecedented dominance over nature, with consequences that are now catching up with us. Many have pointed to Christianity as a culprit. Yet Christianity actually teaches that our relationship to nature should …
Plough Quarterly No. 40 – The Good of Tech
UK Edition
Av Simon Oliver, Sara Nović m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
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How can we live well with tech, without it becoming our master?These days, the heady promises of Silicon Valley seem suspect: the internet didn’t bring all of humanity together; neither did smartphones or social media. We have long since stopped associating tech with utopian visions of global …
Plough Quarterly No. 43 – Why We Work
UK Edition
Av James Rebanks, Benoit Gautier m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
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Is our work merely a way to put food on the table, or does it have inherent value? Should our work define us? Does it play too large a role in our lives? Does it make us feel more human, or less so? This issue explores the realities of work for people with various jobs, but also probes the reasons …
Plough Quarterly No. 45 – The Supernatural
UK Edition
Av Fleming Rutledge, Alison Milbank m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
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Gone are the flat-earth days of scientific rationalism. Humans, it turns out, are naturally hungry for mystery, magic, faith. There have been laments about disenchantment and calls for re-enchantment. Many who forsake traditional religion are drawn to spiritualism and pagan beliefs and practices. …
Plough Quarterly No. 47 – After Religion
UK Edition
Av George Scialabba, Karen Kilby m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
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Christianity shaped the West, bringing conquest and religious strife but also the modern ideals of emancipation, human rights, and democracy. Now Christendom’s influence is waning, and many churches are seeing decline in membership. What happens if we lose the Christian teaching that each human …
Plough Quarterly No. 48 – Searching for the Soul of America
UK Edition
Av David Bentley Hart, Emily Wilson m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
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America may not be the shining “city on a hill.” Yet despite its foibles and crimes, it’s a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, a country that brings together many peoples and seeks, at its best, to make them one. For this, it deserves our …
Plough Quarterly No. 49 – Friendship
UK Edition
Av Oliver Lee Bateman, Maya Savir m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
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Friendship isn’t an optional add-on. It’s what makes life worth living.Without friends, says Aristotle, no one would choose to live. The greatest love a person can show another, says Jesus, is to choose to die for friend. Ancient and medieval writers extol ideal friendship as a path to virtue and a …
Plough Quarterly No. 35 – Pain and Passion
UK Edition
Av Randall Gauger, Benjamin Crosby m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
126 kr
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Pain is inevitable. Almost everyone is living with some kind of pain,whether the cause is physical, emotional, financial, social, or spiritual. Adesire to escape it has led thousands of Canadians to seek euthanasia, andcountless others into opioid addiction. What can we learn from people aroundthe …
Plough Quarterly No. 42 – Educating Humans
UK Edition
Av Meir Soloveichik, Grace Hamman m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
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Education has become too narrowly focused on academic success and future earning potential. But creative schools and individual teachers are finding ways, new and old, to reverse this trend. From kindergarten to university, writers in this issue of Plough step back to look at education as the …
Plough Quarterly No. 26 – What Are Families For?
Av Ross Douthat, Edwidge Danticat m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
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What is a family and what is it good for?Story 1: Families are in crisis, and the cause is moral breakdown. We urgently need a deep renewal of our family culture, supported by public policies that strengthen traditional marriage and encourage childbearing.Story 2: Families are in crisis, and the …
Plough Quarterly No. 36 – Money
What is money for? UK Edition
Av Eugene Vodolazkin, Clare Coffey m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
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Main Description: This issue opens with the story of Melania and her real estate-magnatehusband, who decide to divest themselves of their entire wealth. These earlyChristians, who sold off their many estates and freed eight thousand slaves,were only exceptional in the amount they gave away. Jesus, …
Plough Quarterly No. 38 - Repair
UK Edition
Av Rowan Williams, Makoto Fujimura m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
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Our writers celebrate the work of repair – of objects, relationships, communities, and landscapes – and reckon with its limits.Consumers campaign for a “right to repair” in protest of products’ wasteful “planned obsolescence.” Repair cafés spring up, in which old-timers teach greenhorns to mend …
