How can we live well together? What gives life purpose? What about technology, education, faith, capitalism, work, family? Is another life possible? Plough editor Peter Mommsen and senior editor Susannah Black dig deeper into perspectives from a wide vari
Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here's why I haven't given them up.
The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can't deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.
Hidden in plain sight, foreign health aides in UK care homes face exploitation.
Sharon could hardly leave the house. She showed me the wonder and limits of therapy.
After October 7, can a Muslim-Christian-Jewish center in Abu Dhabi make any difference?
For parents of neurodiverse children, church and school can be another hurdle.
Living with a chronic illness, I've traveled between the kingdom of health and the kingdom of sickness.
Forty years after history's worst industrial accident, survivors still live in its shadow.
The direct primary care model aims to put relationships over profit.
The wounds of a resurrected God help us live with ours.
On an icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica, I felt a warming planet's pulse.
My grandfather's best summer was the one he spent dying.
Can Sherlock Holmes help us find meaning in life? Detective stories and murder mysteries hint at how to make sense of our world.
A record-breaking bull showed that my seventeen-year-old is ready to start taking my place.
In de-industrializing France, a shuttle bus is workers' last link to stability.
America's theologian isn't worried about the death of cultural Christianity.
Food-delivery bike riders in London, Berlin, and Copenhagen are pushing back against their algorithmic bosses.
In a year wracked by violence, I remember the crucifixion to find comfort.
Why do we work? The dream of a truly human economy spans millennia, from Genesis to Marx to Martin Luther King.
A high-school science teacher and his students practice conservation in the woods and ponds of upstate New York.
The mysterious friend of C. S. Lewis teaches how to know and be known in Christ.
My kids already know the world is not safe. Will dragons and goblins make it worse?
Dhananjay Jagannathan defends the spiritual worth of liberal education at Columbia University.
For decades, Stanley Hauerwas has been provoking Christians with his insistence that if they would only follow their Master, it would impact all areas of life, from the personal to the societal. In his new book, *Jesus Changes Everything*, his timely and prophetic voice speaks to another generation of followers of Jesus tired of religion as usual. On March 4, 2025, Stanley Hauerwas, Brian Zahnd, and Charles E. Moore had a conversation about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus today. The event was co-sponsored with the Anglican Episcopal House of Studies and Acts 2 At Duke. Get the book here: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/jesus-changes-everything
A Bruderhof teacher applies lessons from her mentors and Homer in her classroom and beyond.
How do you teach Christian basics to those who think they know all about it?
Faced with a Nazi takeover, the first Bruderhof school took refuge in Liechtenstein.
Learning that one's job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.
A priest joins her local volunteer fire department.
A priest joins her local volunteer fire department.
A new crop of innovative schools encourages all students to use their minds and their hands.
Peter Mommsen asks whether our society has lost sight of how to raise young humans.
Pan Youngguang describes how his persecuted house church chooses to flee together as a community.
Santiago Ramos points out that in a dictatorship, literature nurtures freedom. In a democracy, does it matter?
Maureen Swinger describes an old school bus's transformation into a space for coffee and camaraderie.
Robert Donnelly meets the migrants seeking asylum in the United States.
Emmy Barth Maendel describes how, in just three short years, a sixteenth-century martyr founded a church that has endured to this day.
Heinrich Arnold describes how scripture tells an unfinished history of liberation.
Visual artist Hannah Rose Thomas, architect Charles Howell, and poet Malcolm Guite celebrate the freedom of coloring within the lines.
Dori Moody describes how poverty, chastity, and obedience bring a different kind of freedom.
Rosemarie Garland Thomson asks why parents are not spared the terrible freedom of having to choose whether to have a child with a disability.
Jordan Castro describes how he sought freedom in drugs and novels, but they couldn't save him.
John M.G. Barclay explores how Paul's letters probe the paradox of freedom through love.
Sohrab Ahmari asks what happened to the Christian tradition of supporting workers' rights?
J. Daniel Sims, an insider, reckons with complicity and compromise in Cambodia's aid industry.
James Wood tells his conversion story and asks: Is commitment just for suckers?
Peter Mommsen asks what's the point of freedom?
Alastair Roberts describes how our struggle with technology starts in Genesis.
Matthew Loftus reminds Western donors not to send junk to his Kenyan hospital while stressing that they do depend on Western excess.
Simon Oliver argues that some goods and services have value beyond their market price.
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