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Plugging the Hole in Our Gospel

In this interview, Plough asks World Vision president Richard Stearns why he says there’s a hole in our gospel and why we need to “kill the American dream.”
Interview
Couple holding hands on a riverbank with boats and colorful water reflections in an impressionist style.
Marriage - Can We Have Justice Without It?
Marriage is the greatest anti-poverty program that was ever created. It is so effective at enabling people to live in dignity and avoiding collapse into poverty that one would almost be tempted to think that it is no mere human creation.
Robert P. George
Interview
Statue of a crowned figure holding a staff atop a tall column with European buildings in the background.
Heroes
Why is it that whenever I’m asked to tell a story I go blank? My father also never told stories. Perhaps that’s because his own father was a story.
Maximilian Probst
Essay

Insights

Happy toddler with sandy hands playing behind a pile of sand at the beach.
Sandpile Parenting
As children we had a big sandpile where our imaginations could run wild.
Johann Christoph Arnold
Reading
Large herd of sheep grazing on a green hillside under a clear blue sky, with two people and a donkey among them.
The Economy of the Early Church
The new future puts an end to all powers, legal systems, and property laws now in force. The coming kingdom reveals itself even now wherever God’s all-powerful love unites people in a life of surrendered brotherhood.
Eberhard Arnold
Essay
Close-up of old gold and silver coins with profiles of ancient figures embossed on them.
Liberate Your Wealth
Two early Christian bishops weigh in on wealth and private property.
Basil of Caesarea
Ambrose of Milan
Inklings
Group of people gathered on a stone viewing platform atop rocky cliffs watching a bright sunset over the ocean.
Costly Forgiveness
“One day I received by mail an envelope with two religious magazines. When I opened it, the package exploded, destroying both my hands and one eye, shattering my eardrums, and inflicting many other injuries.”
Michael Lapsley
Essay
Renaissance-style portrait of Jesus Christ with long curly hair and beard, wearing a red and blue robe, set against a blue background framed by an ornately carved golden arch with small statues on either side.
Christianity’s Third Divorce
How is Christianity to cope with a world increasingly hostile to its message and mission? Will the polarized responses to this question lead to yet a third schism through the Christian world?
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
Review

Arts & Letters

A small bird with bright blue, black, and white feathers perched on a wooden post against a blurred green and brown background.
Birding in the Bush
Readers in the northern hemisphere will find zebra finches in most pet stores, but in Australia the zany little birds line up in droves on the fences. Birding in the bush offers unique opportunities as well as hazards.
Bill Wiser
The Naturalist
Black and white photo of a British soldier checking identification tags of young children standing on a train platform with their luggage during wartime evacuation.
We’re All Adopted
At the onslaught of World War Two, English citizens welcomed nearly three million evacuated children into their homes. Isn’t this the spirit Christians need today?
Viewpoint
Stone and concrete stairs covered with dirt and leaves, leading upward from a dark enclosed space to a bright outdoor area.
Poem: Little Religion
Wiman, former editor of Poetry magazine, shares a poem from his latest collection, Once in the West.
Christian Wiman
Poem
A detailed painting of a house facade with multiple windows and wooden panels, featuring clothes hung on lines in front and on a balcony for drying, with a leafless tree in the foreground.
Living Justly
What does it mean to give everything to Christ? The author grapples with the demands of social justice and discipleship to Christ, and his continuing struggle to live it daily.
Charles E. Moore
Essay
Abstract impressionist painting with vibrant, textured brushstrokes in red, yellow, green, blue, and purple hues, suggesting a scene with a figure near the right side.
Poem: Rubbernecking
We cannot fix the contest / outside, even if we / rubberneck our way / through accident and luck.
Poem
Hand-drawn style illustration with a blue textured background featuring a smiling person with closed eyes and short hair, a tall bell tower with a cross on top, a small house with three windows and a roof, flowers, an owl on a tree branch, and other small houses and trees scattered around, with stars and glowing light effects in the sky.
The Bell Ringer
It’s early morning, four o’clock. On a hill outside the village stands a little church with a little bell tower...
Kwon Jeong-saeng
Fiction
Impressionist style painting of a solitary figure in dark robes with a halo, standing in a vast field of earth tones and green patches under a pale sky.
Saint Francis, the Artist
Were all artists like him, our duty towards our neighbor would become a game. He played it so beautifully that the memory of how he played it is still with us – a possession for the meek upon the earth.
Veery Huleatt
Reading