Featured

The Ground of Hospitality
Saint Phocas understood he would have to give himself to the land in return.
Norman Wirzba
Essay
Beating the Big Dry
An Australian cattle farm fights drought by reviving ancient landscapes.
Interview
What I Stand For Is What I Stand On
What Wendell Berry stands on, quite literally, is dirt.
Jeffrey Bilbro
Reviews
The Necessity of Reverence
Conversion is a grace, but we must cultivate a pilgrim’s eye for beauty.
Sister Dominic Mary Heath, OP
Essay
The Birthday Party at the End of the World
South Sudan, Baltimore, and the lived realities of food insecurity.
Matthew Loftus
Essay
Feasting in Kurdistan
Feasting in Kurdistan has made me reconsider the Last Supper.
Marilyn R. Gardner
Essay

From the Editor

From Farm to Feast
If shared with radical hospitality, every meal is a taste of the feast to come.
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor

Insights

How Shall We Farm?
To the question, “How shall we farm?” must be added the question, “How shall we live?”
Philip Britts
Essay
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
Highly processed carbs can seem like an apt representation of human fallenness.
Sarah Ruden
Essay
Cows and Elephants
Alongside wildlife, pastoralists and livestock have shaped the Kenyan landscape for centuries.
Essay
Streams in the Desert
The early mortality rate is dropping steeply, and that’s justice.
Richard Joyner
Dispatch
At the Welcome Table I
Breaking bread around the world: Plough asked five friends in five places to share what hospitality looks and tastes like.
Dispatch
At the Welcome Table II
Breaking bread around the world: Plough asked five friends in five places to share what hospitality looks and tastes like.
Dispatch
Love Is Work
Working together with others is the best way to test our faith.
Eberhard Arnold
Inklings
Why Yemen Starves
The making of a modern famine
Report

Arts & Letters

Table Fellowship
Sieger Köder’s interpretations of innocent suffering have a clarity born in his experience of war.
Another View
Digging Deeper: Issue 20
A list of books to stir the culinary soul
Digging Deeper
A Book to End All Walls
Korea’s demilitarized zone has become an accidental nature preserve that gives hope for a brighter future.
Uk-Bae Lee
Chungyon Won
Interview
Restoring a Creek
Working with nature, the creek has rebounded and begin to show hints of what it must once have been like before European settlement.
Report
Cloth and Cup
Then there’s the cup with / the stained crack. Your favorite.
Luci Shaw
Poetry
The Dead Breed Beauty
Today, a falcon cruising above the river. / Dippers, pure grey, about the size of a dove, / splashing in and out of the water in bursts …
Poetry
Level
The carpenter’s son is dying.
Elizabeth Genovise
Fiction