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If you're in the Atlanta area, we'd love to have you join us for an evening of fellowship on August 28. Details and RSVP here: www.plough.com/events/atlan...
Atlanta Plough Reader Meetup - August 28, 7:00–10:00 p.m. | Plough Events
Join other Plough readers in your area for discussion and fellowship.
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“The healing of America must begin with the healing of its church in which we embrace the ‘freedom for’ rather than the ‘freedom from.’ For freedom is a gift like any other, to be surrendered to the will of God or hoarded for our own pleasure and comfort.” @amymantravadi.bsky.social
Bonhoeffer’s Message to America | Plough
Bonhoeffer determined that America did not know what true freedom was.
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Plough Subscribers can access this week’s free ebook, *To Go On Living* by Narine Abgaryan, in the Downloads section of their account. www.plough.com/books/to-go-...
To Go On Living | Plough Books
Set in rural Armenia in the aftermath of war, Narine Abgaryan’s heartwarming short stories show people finding hope and purpose again.
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“Even in a city at war, where death could arrive any night, people continue to live, work, marry, have children, and hope for a better future. To hope, after all, is human, natural even in times of war or revolution.” @nadyawilliams81.bsky.social
Andrey Kurkov’s Kyiv Mysteries | Plough
The Ukrainian literary sensation does far more than entertain.
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My essay “The Forgotten Virtue” has been condensed and republished by Plough under the new title “My Grandparents Knew Waste Is a Sin.” I’d love to hear which version you prefer. www.plough.com/articles/my-...
My Grandparents Knew Waste Is a Sin | Plough
My parents were raised by people who had starved – for whom waste was unthinkable.
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"We must learn that betrayal and conflict – and all the other demons that emerge when real community happens – are not necessarily terminal but can provide openings into the deeper reaches of the spiritual life" www.plough.com/articles/sta...
Staying at the Table | Plough
How can we remain faithful to a body of believers once the initial euphoria of finding a community fades?
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“The food you scrape into the trash was grown by someone, on land that could have fed someone, and it ends up in a landfill someone else has to live beside. Most of what you waste doesn’t disappear; it just becomes someone else’s problem.” —Robert Lynch
My Grandparents Knew Waste Is a Sin | Plough
My parents were raised by people who had starved – for whom waste was unthinkable.
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Watch James R. Wood’s Keynote at The Sustaining Revival Conference: www.youtube.com/live/zoWzmuv...
Christian Manhood - James Wood
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Watch @oalannoble.bsky.social’s Keynote at The Sustaining Revival Conference: www.youtube.com/live/gho3Ecw...
Christianity and the Good Life - Alan Noble
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Watch Carl Trueman’s Keynote at The Sustaining Revival Conference: www.youtube.com/live/enGY0Cs...
In the Image of God - Carl Trueman
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Listen to Joy Marie Clarkson’s recent conversation with Amanda Held Opelt: www.plough.com/articles/gro...
“You never give up on people. As Christians, we are never let off the hook. We have to keep trying. There is no such thing as canceling someone.” —Michael Cassidy
The Evangelist and the Crocodile | Plough
Legendary anti-apartheid preacher Michael Cassidy recalls the role Christianity played during apartheid, and in its demise.
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“It all began with a picture.” That is how Lewis describes the origin of this classic tale. The whole imaginative process “began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood.” Michael Ward www.plough.com/articles/sev...
Seventy-Five Years of Narnia | Plough
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
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Happy #NationalInternDay! Thanks to all the interns who joined us for the Publishing and Agriculture Internship this summer.
“Adding illustration to some of the world's most famous poetry is ingenious. It elevates the medium and allows the imagination to soar. I loved how varied all the art styles were. ... Just a triumph and great for any lover of poetry.” —Melanie www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Nature Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets More …
This stunning anthology of favorite poems about our rel…
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“We are a nation of isolatoes, in Melville’s phrasing; an entire country corrupted by Socratic skepticism and folded inward by Luther’s doctrine of the heart.” —Joseph M. Keegin
Who Is America’s Homer? | Plough
If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the America...
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“As I skim through the book’s chapters, two words jump out at me from the page: Richland Creek. I read on and learn that in 1895, beneath those hills where I rambled as a teenager, twenty-nine men and boys lost their lives in an explosion and subsequent cave-in just five days before Christmas.”
Down the Tunnels of Richland Creek | Plough
In an old book, I discovered my hometown’s hidden mining history.
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*Nothing Can Separate Us: Healing for Souls and Nations* by Howard Thurman is coming in September! Pre-order a copy here: www.plough.com/books/nothin...
Submit your story to the Plough Short Fiction Contest by September 1st! First prize = $2,000 www.plough.com/short-fictio...
Short Fiction Contest
Plough is seeking short fiction that honors the mysterious nature of reality and finds transcendence and redemption in unexpected places.
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We’re cooking up a truly excellent (ahem) Plough issue for September on FRIENDSHIP. Which cover do you want? Please tell our designers in the comments which ones you love or hate and why. Cover 1: ROWERS Cover 2: TWO BIRDS Cover 3: RENAISSANCE AMICITIA Cover 4: TREE CLIMBERS
“Christ is our dwelling, we say, and Scripture points toward the day when God will make his home among us for good. Beautiful and true, yet apparently useless to the man sleeping in his car in the church parking lot.” —Israel Cooper
A Car Is Not a Home | Plough
Christians are finding creative ways to serve their unhoused neighbors. Does the biblical vision of home and hospitality demand more of us?
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“It was not only John the Baptist and his call to repentance that heralded the coming of Christ; the sons of Korah with their music and poetry,...craftsmen at the tabernacle, and Mary singing her Magnificat shaped the heart and imagination of Israel in preparation for the Incarnation.” —Amy Baik Lee
A Tiger, a Bear, and a Son of Heaven | Plough
How the foundation myth of Korea shows that God was at work in the minds and hearts of the Korean people long before the first missionaries arrived.
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This David Bentley Hart essay is low key fire in a lot of ways www.plough.com/articles/wha...
What Lies Beyond Capitalism? | Plough
Capitalism can’t be reconciled with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Book Tour: If One Only Had a Mind with @philipchristman.bsky.social Christman *Your Name Here* @helendewitt.bsky.social & Ilya Gridneff *Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife* @francescawade.bsky.social *On Morrison* @namwalien.bsky.social. www.plough.com/articles/boo...
Book Tour: If One Only Had a Mind | Plough
Reviewing Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade, and On Morrison by Namwali Serpell.
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One week left to the Sustaining Revival Conference! Details: sustainingrevival.squarespace.com Speakers: Carl Trueman, James R. Wood, Alan Noble, Susannah Black Roberts, Kelsey Murray, Orlando Pazol Mendoza, David Schaengold, Audrey Pollnow, Francine Dash, Aljosie Aldrich Harding, Sean Domencic
“Our daily work must be undertaken in such a way that everything we do is a prayer, a loving prayer for all those who might come to the church even years from now, through the witness of our work, and be provided by the church with shelter, clothing, and food.” —Eberhard Arnold
Overwhelmed by the Spirit of Jesus | Plough
When this simple, loving spirit resolves all conflicts among us, we will not be afraid of anyone.
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