A formidable young man stayed with our family on a summer break from the Ivy League. He had never, to anyone’s knowledge, lost an argument. Until he met my brother Duane, that is – my brother, who had never learned to speak...

A veteran Cuban pastor speaks about his conversion, reveals how a direct encounter with Christians thawed Fidel Castro’s atheism, and shares his vision for Cuba’s economic and spiritual future.

Detective Steven McDonald was shot in the line of duty in 1986 and paralyzed from the neck down. Confined to a wheelchair and dependent on a ventilator to breathe, he forgave his teenage assailant. Read his remarkable story.

A cab pickup truck pulled up at the farm promptly at ten o’clock. Five men piled out ready for work. “I’ve got rubber boots, Marcus, rubber boots,” one of them intoned as he blinked and rocked back and forth...

Our reviewer critiques Christian Poetry in America since 1940, a new anthology edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas.

Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel is magnificent and harrowing – and leaves us with more questions than answers. This historically grounded tale of religious persecution probes the core of what it means to follow Jesus.

I picked up a button about a decade ago with a quote attributed to Dorothy Day on it: “If you have two coats, you have stolen one from the poor.” I loved this saying, loved the strength of conviction, the easy black-and-white application...

What does everyday discipleship look like? In her letters and diary entries, Dorothy Day lays out what discipleship involves in words that ring true because they come from a woman who lived them without compromise.

The future we long for is already here.

Will anyone whose heart is stabbed by the awful misery of the refugees ... either give shelter to one or two himself or do his best to make it possible for us to welcome more of those who are living in such tragic circumstances?

Shocked to the core by the Holocaust, in 1948 a young woman began her lifelong search for a living, authentic church. She would go on to cofound a Catholic community inspired by the first church as described in the New Testament. Here is her story.

Mark is gone. The news wasn’t a shock; I had known it was pending. But that didn’t soften the impact for me or for thousands of other Americans: North, South, and Central Americans alike... The legacy of Mark Zwick.

“As long as we want to get something from God in some kind of exchange, we are like merchants...”; “God does not deny himself to anyone who perseveres...”; “I want to be thoroughly used up when I die...”

We welcome letters to the editor. Here are some readers' responses to articles that appeared in Plough's Winter 2017 issue, Alien Citizens.

Inspired by a visit to the site of a 1625 religious community, Eliot’s poem portrays the choice he saw facing humanity: to be destroyed in the fires of war or to allow that fire to purify and restore. An artist interprets Eliot’s lines.